Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

But they are increasingly demanding better accounting for those dollars, saying that the bureaucracy has grown too big even as the troops in the field are scrimping.

From Washington Times • Jan. 25, 2018

It's galling to them that as they are scrimping and worrying, the student finance system brackets them with the super-rich.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2015

Estelle S. Reisner Meadville, Pa. We are scrimping to pay back over $20,000 for our graduate educations, and we feel like chumps.

From Time Magazine Archive

In order to buy a house, couples are scrimping drastically on other spending—for cars, food and even furniture; not a few fancy new houses are almost bare inside.

From Time Magazine Archive