thriftiness
Example Sentences
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Consumer companies are counting on consumers’ thriftiness to go away eventually.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Pieced-together bedding has demonstrated thriftiness, whether for contemporary Japanese householders enveloping futons in plaid fragments, or Gilded Age wives making coverlets out of golden silk ribbons from their husbands’ cigar packages.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Events will include craft demonstrations, re-enactments and some will even highlight the Viking's thriftiness, Mr Henry said.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023
Guralnick practices New England thriftiness by buying vintage and creating botanical art from fallen leaves.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
The yield of an apple-tree depends on many factors,—age, size, thriftiness, care it has received, whether it has escaped frost and other injuries; and some varieties are much more prolific than others.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
