scrimping
- present participle of scrimp.
Example Sentences
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"The UK has constantly been scrimping and saving… we are low on scanners, low on everything, way behind everybody else," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“We have been scrimping for a long time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Related: ‘I worked very hard’: I’m 71 and have $6 million after scrimping and saving.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
Dick Rutan achieved celebrity and was in demand on the speaker circuit but didn’t gain the fortune he had expected after scrimping for years to get Voyager aloft.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
She means," corrected Aunt Clara, who was nobody's fool, "she means it would be pleasanter living in my house than scrimping here to pay for dead horses.
From The House of Toys by Miller, Henry Russell
