penny-pinching

Example Sentences

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Restaurants are trying to lure back customers after a challenging 2025, where traffic fell and chains pumped out discounts to try to bring penny-pinching consumers back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

What’s happening now is a mix of penny-pinching and finger-pointing.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 24, 2026

Starring Vanessa Williams as the titular prima donna, the brilliantly named Ebony Scrooge, the film follows Ebony’s transformation from penny-pinching pop star to charitable altruist.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

In the penny-pinching era, railroads “didn’t want to put money back into the infrastructure, including on-duty facilities,” said Jeremy Ferguson of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, Norfolk’s biggest union.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024

You get in trouble if you're too openly penny-pinching.

From Starman's Quest by Mack, Stan