Example Sentences

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Musically, it’s fully if a little skimpily Sondheim, and entirely worthy of his catalog.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2023

Indeed, he’s thriving thanks to a long-running but skimpily detailed secret project he calls Chippin’ In.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

There were enough skimpily motivated characters, to my mind, without folding in soulless monsters defined by their unstoppability.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016

So for the skimpily funded Charles Ives Society, the current keeper of the flame, there's no way to save the house because there's no money, no money, no money.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2011

They did not fare very well, though each of them negotiated some skimpily favorable remark before the protesting prosecution, which contended that personal comments of this nature were “incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial,” hushed and banished them.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote