be thrifty
Example Sentences
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The executive chef has to be thrifty to make it all work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They also portrayed him as a libertarian who dislikes government regulation and who can be thrifty to a fault.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
Some of them may be thrifty 25-year-olds living in their old bedrooms while trying to save money for a down payment.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2018
Hampered by a $36 million salary cap penalty levied by the league in March 2012 and split evenly over the next two seasons, the Redskins were forced to be thrifty.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 7, 2015
They had to be thrifty, and might be seen picking weeds on the wayside into their aprons, to feed their cows.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
