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 Stoddard, Charles Warren