thriftiness

Example Sentences

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Despite thriftiness on essentials, these shoppers continue to spend on luxury items, wellness, and travel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Where employers like Google and Facebook became known for cushy workplaces and generous salaries, Amazon is an infamously competitive and sometimes bruising workplace where employees were rewarded for thriftiness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

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

Such would be the best means of ensuring thriftiness; and, until we obtain some such system, I fear we may labour in vain to induce economy.

From Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter by Munro, Colin