stint
verb (used without object)
to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance.
had stinted
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past perfectof stint.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The horses were tired out and dying for water, and though their riders had stinted themselves for their sakes, still their ration was very insufficient.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
For their sake he had stinted himself of many needful things.
From A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells
After all his toil it stood on his easel in a terribly unfinished condition, though he had stinted his own body to lavish his money on it.
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Louis Zangwill
He had stinted himself and toiled almost as a beast of burden, but now he could use his brains in place of wringing the last effort out of overtaxed muscle.
From Winston of the Prairie by W. Herbert Dunton
I happened to say it looked as if her parents had stinted her in hair before marriage, and that she had determined to indulge her fancy now.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie
