skimping
- present participle of skimp.
Example Sentences
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A public debate is raging over for-profit schools, which critics say make money by skimping on playgrounds, libraries and staff.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
"Sometimes I would have asked my mum after we'd ended up in hospital overnight if she could transfer me money as I wasn't expecting to be here, we were skimping to get by," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
And with good reason: This is a fantastically outlandish production that delivers a kind of large-scale razzmatazz that has become rare — no skimping here.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
Moreover, the menu prices were quite affordable, without skimping on meal choices.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024
On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
