scrimp

However, I don’t want my son to think that I will take care of everything and that he doesn’t have to work hard and scrimp and save.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

Bureaucrats who were not furloughed alleged they were forced to scrimp by limiting the use of air conditioning, lifts and even printers.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

You might want to scrimp and save, but this isn’t the time for that.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024

The result is that many families shoulder the work themselves, losing out on paid employment, or elderly people scrimp on needed assistance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

This book was too important to scrimp on details.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Down the hall, 56-year-old Janine Cox gets an occasional bag of chips from the vending machine and scrimps to add to the collection plate at church.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Don’t let all this talk of characters give you the impression that Vikings scrimps on the action, though.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2017

If your mom scrimps on tools, you know she won't buy garden decor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2016

If I have one criticism of Passan’s book, it is that he scrimps on the history of pitchers’ arms.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016

Na, he seldom scrimps 't to them 'at follows his biddin'.

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald

I grew up in an era where you scrimped and saved and did not indulge in luxuries.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

Perhaps they might think of their parents who weren’t able to have a “maximum level of enjoyment” while they scrimped and saved to come up with $86,926 for tuition and fees each year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Trevor Barnard, electrician at Markham Main: "It was hard, I mean it was like living back in the 1800s where you scrimped and scraped. You tried to save on everything you could."

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024

He scrimped together his first wages to buy the small squeezebox he packed when he immigrated — alone — to the United States at the age of 15.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

He had scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews in Hilversum—for the elderly of all faiths, in fact, for Willem was against any system of segregation.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“We have been scrimping for a long time.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

‘I worked very hard’: I’m 71 and have $6 million after scrimping and saving.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

"It's literally scrimping and scraping to be able to manage to get one lesson a week," she says.

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

With housing prices falling and stocks prices limping along, even middle-class families are scrimping rather than spending.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

Well, the lawyer wasn’t one tamely to yield his rights; he did not propose always to remain a scrimping, pettifogging attorney, existing on crumbs.

From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd