scrimp

How To Use scrimp In A Sentence

• She was determined to do her part, she said: she should be mighty glad to help get that skinchy-scrimpy look out of Miss The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
• When she was their age, she thinks, we had to scrimp and scrape for soap.
• Maguire, silver-haired but with a youthful face, looks surprisingly well put together for a man who scrimps on his clothing budget.
• Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy.
• I've been scrimping and saving all year to pay for our holiday.
• They scrimped on butter as best as they could.
• To a scrimpy and screwy man, of the type most abundant, such a position would have done a deal of harm, shutting him up into his own shell harder, and flinting its muricated horns against the world. Springhaven
• I mean: there they are, all multiethnic yet homespun, chock-full of scrimpy rightwing family values, thinking globally and acting locally, checking their ten-dollar Indian laptops to see whose turn it is to turn the compost heap ... Warren Ellis
• I scrimped and scraped to get everything they wanted.
• Children at Coniston Primary School have got involved as well, scrimping on the penny chews to contribute the change from their dinner money to the loo fund instead.