Example Sentences

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It’s also got a good public restroom, which is no small luxury — in my opinion, bathrooms on King County trails are too sparse, stingily parceled out for fast-moving bicyclists, not 3-mile-an-hour pedestrians.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

They stingily pick which cases go on the docket, and how they are framed and scheduled.

From Fox News • Sep. 19, 2020

More stingily, you could turn to Fran Lebowitz’s first essay collection, “Metropolitan Life,” which includes a three-paragraph harrumph titled “Clothes with Pictures and/or Writing on Them: Yes—Another Complaint.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2018

Instead, he read the current statute as stingily as possible, concluding that it did, indeed, allow the government to detain all three groups of immigrants indefinitely.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2018

We may know enough, but we give ourselves out stingily and we live narrow and reserved lives, when we should be broad, generous, sympathetic, and magnanimous.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett