Example Sentences

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Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2019

Fuel misers will choose the 20d, a 4-cylinder turbocharged diesel that the Environmental Protection Agency rates at an average of 36 miles per gallon.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2017

How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2017

Decades of research have shown that humans are so-called cognitive misers.

From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2015

If they ever become impotent in the production of pleasure, it is when their possessors have become gluttons, sots, debauchees, misers, or some similar compound of human depravity.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John