Sample Sentences for

parsimonious

(editor-reviewed)

Ebenezer Scrooge was parsimonious in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

They are known for parsimony in their business practices.

With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks, Everyone had forgotten about the existence of that fortune.  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

But he has a reputation for wisdom and for a respectable parsimony  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

You think me rather parsimonious, don't you?  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1850

They had rescued a wineskin from among the ruins, which Pedro Garcfa divided three ways: a third to wash the injured man's body, a third for Esteban to drink, and the other third he drank parsimoniously himself before beginning to set Esteban's bones, one by one, patiently and calmly, pulling here, adjusting there, putting each one back in its proper place, splinting them, wrapping them in strips of sheet to keep them immobile, mumbling litanies to the healing saints, invoking good luck and the Virgin Mary, and putting up with the screams and blasphemies of Esteban Trueba, without ever altering his beatific blind man's expression.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

He had not come to stay with him on his arrival in Petersburg simply from parsimony, though that had been perhaps his chief object.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1866

He was, I had discovered, parsimonious about small expenditures--a trait absolutely inconsistent with his general character.  (source) Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918

Beginning here, as though regretting her parsimony, Nature had spread his features with a lavish hand.  (source) Jack London, White Fang, 1906

He was secretive, he was parsimonious with his affections.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.  (source) O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi, 1905

Her father, in a moment of brutal honesty, had once said of his only daughter that God had been generous when giving her brains but parsimonious with her looks.†  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

There's no parsimony in us when it comes to bridal gifts.  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.