scrimp
verb (used without object)
to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed byon ).
was scrimping
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past progressiveof scrimp.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At 24, she’s a gatherer of riffs and whispers, a woman who not long ago was scrimping to buy loop machines and baking donuts in Los Angeles to make rent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
Correspondent Bob Schieffer was at first concerned that CBS was scrimping.
From Time Magazine Archive
E was scrimping in every way; his case was growing desperate.
From In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard
