skimp

How To Use skimp In A Sentence

• In a flurry of bright patterns, flashy materials, and skimpy outfits, several girls flurried into the room, all clicking away on high heels and giggling shrilly.
• A day later, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a white police officer more than 20 years ago, despite what GOP Rep. Bob Barr called the conviction's reliance on "the skimpiest of evidence," and, in the words of former FBI director William Sessions, "pervasive, persistent doubts" about Davis' guilt. Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
• Under it she was naked but for a pair of the skimpiest bikini briefs. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
• I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
• Oh, and there will be beer, too - a kegger, actually - if the promise of skimpy costumes is not enough of a draw.
• Miranda was having a heated argument with a dark-haired short girl, dressed in skimpy clothing.
• They discover some pirate treasure at the bottom of the ocean, while looking ripped, tanned and clad in the skimpiest of skimpy clothes.
• I once heard one calling in the top of a skimpy fir tree in a wood. Times, Sunday Times
• The band prefers to keep things very understated, but they never skimp on melody or song structure, which, though simple, doesn't fail to captivate.
• No cannikin was skimped while I was at the spigot. The Black Buccaneer