Example Sentences

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Deschaine is scrimping to cope with the slow growth of her husband's graphic-design business.

From Time • Oct. 10, 2010

When a man is losing his wages and his family is scrimping he ought not to be facing a thirty-dollar-a-week hospital charge.

From The Highgrader by Hutchison, D. C.