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How to use thrifty in a sentence

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The housewife of Jaffna, being thrifty, makes minimum use of ingredients to turn out simple, wholesome fare.
Maggie Thatcher wasn't a politician, but an ordinary thrifty housewife who had somehow become Prime Minister.
But in other areas, she would seem to be thrifty to the point of stinginess.
More expensive water will provide an incentive to be more thrifty in how it is used.
For the thrifty, there are smaller lanes branching off, where no goods carry price tags and bargaining is the name of the game.
People who save see others as wasteful while people who spend see others as thrifty.
We will be focussing on the forequarter, which lends itself to all kinds of delicious but thrifty recipes.
With mineral crystal lenses, hand-made titanium frames, and silicone nose and ear tips, these glasses aren't for the thrifty.
Billed by its advocates as the best-kept secret on the internet, search-engine marketing has become the medium of choice for thrifty marketeers.
There is no haggling, but why be thrifty over cured reindeer meat, heaps of cloudberries, lingonberries and baskets of wild mushrooms?
The thrifty Scot is well aware that some nifty wheeling and dealing has left him in a win-win situation.
Being thrifty with his money is not something the Bond star is renowned for.
The cash-strapped collegian or the thrifty housewife would certainly understand this logic.
She named an amount of money for this service which my thrifty husband felt was ridiculous.
She is very resourceful and thrifty, but her face is always expressionless, except for an occasional look of fear.
There are also discounts available for the thrifty to holders of American Express cards.
Dewar, who came to embody the thrifty character of the nation, had a vision which is encapsulated in those first six sonorous words.
The average Swiss government member, I repeat it, treats and manages the money of the tax payer as if it were his own, in a thrifty way.
They were so favourably located with reference to both the sea and rivers that our colonists built a thrifty trade overseas.
Knowing where to shop and what constitutes as essential to the game can help beginners get a thrifty start in the sport.
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Northern Illinois filled rapidly with a thrifty farming population, and the town of Chicago became an entrepot.
You have had in the city of Kokomo an enterprising and thrifty county town.
If a man is thrifty it will find expression in the orderliness of his place.
The broad bean is a thrifty plant, as hardy as any in the garden, and very accommodating as to soil.
A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
I prefer young, thrifty trees, planted in furrows made with a plow and subsoiler.
She declared she was thrifty, but neither a miser, nor a kidnaper, nor a witch.
Mr mcqueen was a thrifty man, and got his supply of turf early in the season.
He was a thrifty farmer for his times, and quite an extensive dealer in cordwood and hoppoles.
I learned that, like all thrifty young men, you had a savings account at the bank here.
The purchaser was a thrifty, farsighted traveling man who had wearied of the road and wanted to settle down.
The thrifty also burned fewer extra calories than the spendthrifts on the day they were overfed.
I didnt know those Mexicans were so thrifty, the rower went on.
How neat she was, how thrifty, how comfortable, and how comforting!
What kind of wife do you think would be best for me as a thrifty hard-working farmer?
He was temperate in his rationalism and thrifty in his philanthropy.
I hae studied her weel, and she's a thrifty, douce, clever lassie.
First of all, that they were canny, a thrifty, forehanded race.
Such reckoning, of course, only holds good of thrifty, homely France.
Is their indirect object to be strong, thrifty members of society?
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