Example Sentences

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Dave and Greg didn't talk now; they were husbanding their store of "wind."

From The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

They were husbanding their small resources for the time of need.

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.

His pace is a sort of leopard canter, as if he were in nowise impeded by the snow, but were husbanding his strength all the while.

From Excursions by Thoreau, Henry David

The enemy liked time for foods and the Belgians crippled by the loss of that earlier train, were husbanding their ammunition.

From The Amazing Interlude by Rinehart, Mary Roberts