How To Use Scrimp In A Sentence
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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
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When she was their age, she thinks, we had to scrimp and scrape for soap.
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Maguire, silver-haired but with a youthful face, looks surprisingly well put together for a man who scrimps on his clothing budget.
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Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy.
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I've been scrimping and saving all year to pay for our holiday.
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They scrimped on butter as best as they could.
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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
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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
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I scrimped and scraped to get everything they wanted.
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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.
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Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy.
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Molly opened it, and there stood Miss Browning, in a wonderful erection of a nightcap, and scantily attired in a coloured calico jacket over her scrimpy and short white petticoat.
Wives and Daughters
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Though online dictionaries say skimp and scrimp are synonymous, and some even OK the spelling "skrimp.")
Undefined
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I was fortunate; my parents scrimped hard to put me through Catholic high school.
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Fans will face the usual scraping and scrimping and helter-skelter hunting for tickets.
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There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline that may be tempted to scrimp on maintenance or security.
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PERUGINO (_Pietro_): known by his narrow, contracted figures and scrimpy drapery (1446-1524).
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline that may be tempted to scrimp on maintenance or security.
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Cash-strapped schools are going to have to scrimp and save for the next two years, according to a report.
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The less privileged instinctively know this and that's why even your bai will somehow scrimp and scrounge but prefer to send her child to an ‘English medium’ school.
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scratch and scrimp
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Israel failed to win firm pledge that Moscow Halt Advanced Weapons sales to Syria. obaid karki an outcast underdog libertarian diogenesist kabbalist spinoziste qutbist pantheon hexalingual automath former uae under secretary independent street-knowledge urban talking-head. unaffiliated to a state, an organized religion group, a sect or a kin and an anti tribal gentile. administration plans to revamp rescue plan american arrested near pakistani border americans face wide spectrum of money problems apparently drown in hawaii's 3 tourists high surf apple aims to defy gravity asia markets: tokyo stocks surge over 12%; financials on fire asia markets: tokyo takes off as trading resumes, nikkei up 13% asian stocks soar after us rally asia-pacific extends world market rebound assailants attack us consulate in mexico at indian call centers, another view of us australia plans $7.4 billion to boost economy australia plans us$7. 4 billion to boost economy australia unveils $7.4 billion fiscal stimulus plan austria: 'horror dad' trial likely delayed until 2009 bailout sit-down: treasury, fed and major wall street players meet bailout, part two ballmer's luck in yahoo failure gives microsoft nice miss 'as stock slips banco santander to take over sovereign bancorp in $1. 9-billion deal boeing talks with striking machinists break down boeing, machinists halt talks on ending 5-week strike boeing: contract talks with machinists off again budget cuts force rhode island to scrimp on services bush to announce $250b bank share buy-up bush to announce expanded bank bailout
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Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy.
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There were others like me, who had scrimped and saved to come to paradise for their dream vacation, only to wind up bent, folded, spindled and mutilated.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
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I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
Lydia of the Pines
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After scrimping and saving more pennies, we mustered the low budget to get some promotional pressings done.
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You can get rich in several ways: by winning a lottery, marrying into money, inheriting wealth, suing, or careful scrimping and saving over a lifetime.
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`I'm glad the Italians didn't scrimp and save and move away, like the Whatchamacallits," said Anastasia, after two mouthfuls of spaghetti.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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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
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A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
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Every dollar I scrimped or saved barely had time to cool in my hands before it was in the cash register at the local store and I was on the way home with another addition to my racing stable.
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Those people who are living on scrimpy Social Securtiy checks?
Firedoglake » Lotus 1-2-3 and the Politics of 1992
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Advanced Weapons sales to Syria. obaid karki an outcast underdog libertarian diogenesist kabbalist spinoziste qutbist pantheon hexalingual automath former uae under secretary independent street-knowledge urban talking-head. unaffiliated to a state, an organized religion group, a sect or a kin and an anti tribal gentile. administration plans to revamp rescue plan american arrested near pakistani border americans face wide spectrum of money problems apparently drown in hawaii's 3 tourists high surf apple aims to defy gravity asia markets: tokyo stocks surge over 12%; financials on fire asia markets: tokyo takes off as trading resumes, nikkei up 13% asian stocks soar after us rally asia-pacific extends world market rebound assailants attack us consulate in mexico at indian call centers, another view of us australia plans $7.4 billion to boost economy australia plans us$7. 4 billion to boost economy australia unveils $7.4 billion fiscal stimulus plan austria: 'horror dad' trial likely delayed until 2009 bailout sit-down: treasury, fed and major wall street players meet bailout, part two ballmer's luck in yahoo failure gives microsoft nice miss 'as stock slips banco santander to take over sovereign bancorp in $1. 9-billion deal boeing talks with striking machinists break down boeing, machinists halt talks on ending 5-week strike boeing: contract talks with machinists off again budget cuts force rhode island to scrimp on services bush to announce $250b bank share buy-up bush to announce expanded bank bailout
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From the scrimpy legs of the knickerbockers his knees shone bare and brown.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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Gina quits her job and scrimps together enough money to open her own salon.
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Not at all – most of as working class or lower middle class kids were privately educated in parochial schools that our parents scrimped to pay for, then benefited from the public colleges in our states.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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Can you scrimp and save enough to cover that cost?
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PROS: While action-packed, this novel doesn't scrimp on portraying not only Andre's emotional turmoil over the tragic loss of his family, but also the obstacles Claire and Andre must face in reconnecting to each other.
August 2009
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`I'm glad the Italians didn't scrimp and save and move away, like the Whatchamacallits," said Anastasia, after two mouthfuls of spaghetti.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)