Example Sentences

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For their sake he had stinted himself of many needful things.

From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean

Henry, to convince him that he had stinted himself to obtain for him this collation, sat down and partook of it.

From Nature and Art by Morley, Henry

We had stinted ourselves in nothing except style.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow

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 Zangwill, Louis

That morning, at breakfast, her mother had stinted her in milk—just a little—that she might have enough to make some milk-porridge for their dinner.

From A Double Story by MacDonald, George