be thrifty
Example Sentences
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Parents have reason to be thrifty this year.
From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2022
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
Some of them may be thrifty 25-year-olds living in their old bedrooms while trying to save money for a down payment.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
In other efforts to be thrifty, he pours used pasta water onto his garden, shares a bath with his wife and has replaced his lawn with crushed granite.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Its former sea trade after the Spanish invasion was never recovered, and its population, which was beginning to be thrifty and prosperous up to 1914, has now entirely disappeared.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
