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Example sentences for "frugally"

Lexicographically close words:
fructum; fructus; frue; frugal; frugality; fruges; frugivorous; fruict; fruit; fruitage
  1. Why not marry her now, and frugally convert the tail-end of Dent's Excursion into a honeymoon?

  2. She was living at this time most frugally and economically.

  3. For supper my wife set before him finely cut slices of sausage and meat, which he at once devoured wholesale, instead of spreading them frugally on his bread in Saxon fashion.

  4. We lived very frugally in chilly lodgings, hopefully awaiting the tardy day of our deliverance.

  5. They all subsisted frugally on soup, potatoes and fresh air.

  6. In the evening he sups as frugally as he dined, and finishes the day at home in a circle of his most intimate friends, the only society for which he cared.

  7. I have lived frugally during the time you were in service.

  8. These would be charged to his account, and frugally as he might live, many a year might pass over his head before he would be out of debt to his Order.

  9. It is come, it shall come, say the Citoyens frugally hobnobbing.

  10. But his father had got on frugally through his lonely years; and with what he had saved he had made himself owner of new property.

  11. I have hitherto conducted your household as frugally and economically as possible, but you must pardon me for having defrauded you for thirty years.

  12. I have lived frugally during your time of service--I planned to increase it.

  13. At the end of his long life, spent frugally as a bachelor and somewhat of a recluse, he was doubtless by far the richest man in all the South.

  14. I thought I lived frugally up here, but Mrs. Barnes must have lived so much more frugally that almost everything is suspected by her to be a luxury provided by my hospitality.

  15. Well, so I should think were the poor mothers of families by the time they have kept house frugally for a year.

  16. They live at home as frugally as possible so that for one magnificent month they can pretend to waiters and chambermaids and the other visitors that they are richer than they are.

  17. By living frugally and temperately, health is preserved.

  18. Or: "By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health.

  19. Its object is to manage frugally the resources of the family; to prevent waste; and avoid useless expenditure.

  20. A rich man may live very expensively and very ill; and a poor man may live frugally and very well, if it be his good fortune to have a good cook in his wife or in his servant.

  21. My table was always rather frugally furnished: at the best I had rice boiled in milk or some eggs, but generally only rice, with water and salt.

  22. The Tartars do not live so frugally as the Arabs.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frugally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carefully; economically; husbandly; moderately; poorly; slightly; sparingly