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Example sentences for "scrimping"

Lexicographically close words:
scrim; scrimmage; scrimmages; scrimp; scrimped; scrip; scripsi; scripsit; script; scripta
  1. To provide food for two out of what had been scrimping for one was a problem; but Miss Bennett ate very little, and she did not resume her tea so they managed to get along and not really suffer.

  2. Or perhaps, it should be added, a third result may come about; the woman accepts the man's ideal of life and joins with him in their scrimping campaign.

  3. This meant borrowing and scrimping for several years,--a fact which had great bearing on the wife's illness later.

  4. I have kept this family on very short commons for two years and they must go on scrimping until the machine is finished, no matter how long that may be.

  5. Mrs. Clemens gets millions of delight out of it; & the children have never uttered one complaint about the scrimping from the beginning.

  6. Old friends began to either pointedly reprove her, or pointedly ignore her; and at last even old Helga took the popular tone and said, "Margaret Sinclair had got too scrimping for an auld wife like her to bide wi' langer.

  7. Ready money, as much as he could lay hands on, was the dearest thing in life to him and the fun of having any one scrimping and delving to procure it for him was a joy not to be lightly thrown away.

  8. No more huddling in the kitchen and scrimping of fires.


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrimping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    canny; careful; chary; chintzy; curtailment; economic; economical; economizing; economy; elegance; exiguous; forehanded; frugal; frugality; infrequent; meager; miserly; niggardly; parsimonious; piddling; pinching; poor; provident; prudent; rare; retrenchment; saving; scant; scanty; scarce; scattered; scrimping; skimpy; slim; slowdown; spare; sparing; sparse; sprinkled; stingy; stinting; thin; thrift; thrifty; tight