Example Sentences

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Plenty of working families are raising children and having fruitful social lives on median incomes or even less: Living thriftily is not the same as living penuriously or meanly.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Thanking Scholz for a trustful cooperation during coalition negotiations, Lindner vowed to respect the fiscal rules of the constitution, use taxpayers money thriftily and strive for solid public finances.

From Reuters • Dec. 9, 2021

Many other dramas set in the trenches have thriftily relied upon re-purposed second world war helmets.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2019

After years of writing to deadlines time has indeed become money for me, and I cannot afford to squander any of it − thriftily insomniac Mrs Thatcher would approve.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

Afterwards, Sam thriftily opened an old can of a less expensive variety of proteinex and put half of it on a platter, which Mark carried outside the ship.

From Dead Man's Planet by Samachson, Joseph