stingily

Example Sentences

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It’s also got a good public restroom, which is no small luxury — in my opinion, bathrooms on King County trails are too sparse, stingily parceled out for fast-moving bicyclists, not 3-mile-an-hour pedestrians.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

They stingily pick which cases go on the docket, and how they are framed and scheduled.

From Fox News • Sep. 19, 2020

More stingily, you could turn to Fran Lebowitz’s first essay collection, “Metropolitan Life,” which includes a three-paragraph harrumph titled “Clothes with Pictures and/or Writing on Them: Yes—Another Complaint.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2018

Various constitutional provisions certainly imply a right to vote—but the Supreme Court has interpreted these stingily.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2017

We stingily hoard up within our breasts the last remnants of feeling—a treasure concealed by avarice, and which remains utterly unprofitable.

From Liza "A nest of nobles" by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden