stint
verb (used without object)
to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance.
are stinting
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present progressiveof stint.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Is it for this, indeed, one has relations—that they may come and lay waste the house, while we are stinting all the year round just to stuff these locusts!
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai
I should be so thankful if I could help, for it’s horrid to know the people at home are stinting themselves for your sake.
From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Percy Tarrant
