Example Sentences

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But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2020

After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2018

Tollett has not only husbanded the landscape; he has branded it.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

Instead, he husbanded it, and Russia grew rich.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2017

Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck