thriftiness

Example Sentences

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Consumer companies are counting on consumers’ thriftiness to go away eventually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Pieced-together bedding has demonstrated thriftiness, whether for contemporary Japanese householders enveloping futons in plaid fragments, or Gilded Age wives making coverlets out of golden silk ribbons from their husbands’ cigar packages.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

Events will include craft demonstrations, re-enactments and some will even highlight the Viking's thriftiness, Mr Henry said.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2023

Chicken's popularity can in large part be traced to its thriftiness.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

He had good health, good habits, a clean mind, thriftiness, and a tireless devotion to whatever he thought to be his duty.

From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Sanford, Chester Milton