thrift
Example Sentences
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But with the help of Aunt Melissa’s closet and a tiny thrift store in Somewhere, she makes it work.
From Literature
He started biking around his neighborhood, visiting garage sales and thrift stores, buying whatever he could carry to sell online.
From Los Angeles Times
Regulators lacked the resources in their insurance fund to close bankrupt S&Ls, forcing an era of “forbearance” when thrifts stayed open despite insolvency.
Discount and dollar stores, wholesale clubs, off-price retailers, and thrift stores were some of the most visited stores on Super Saturday, Placer.ai found.
From Barron's
Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
