shoestring
Example Sentences
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But this time, the money wasn’t there for Operation Shoestring — or Mississippi’s poorest families.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022
In 2017, a Mississippi nonprofit called Operation Shoestring received a federal grant worth more than $200,000.
From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022
After fires, illness and neighbor squabbles, the book ends with the youngest Slater boy, Shoestring, wanting “to git book-larnin’.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2021
But prior to my own Eurorailing adventure, I’d lent my Lonely Planet: Europe on a Shoestring to five friends who had already been on such a trip, asking them to add notes, suggestions, annotations.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2018
She had used one the previous summer to measure the movement of the Shoestring Glacier; she was sure it would help now.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
