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
By 1935, even the chairman of something called the National Thrift Committee admitted there was “no use talking thrift to persons who had nothing to be thrifty with.”
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2015
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
In order that the plants may be thrifty, there must be enough but not too much of these different things.
From Conservation Reader by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
