Sample Sentences for
thrifty
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    Then the screen changes to a menu of four choices: OUR SPECIAL LIMITED FACILITIES-THRIFTY BUT SANITARY STANDARD FACILITIES-JUST LIKE HOME-MAYBE JUST A LITTLE BETTER PRIME FACILITIES-A GRACIOUS PLACE FOR ThE DISCRIMINATING PATRON ThE LAVATORY GRANDE ROYALE He has to override a well-worn reflex to stop himself from automatically punching SPECIAL LIMITED FACILITIES, which is what he and all the other U-Stor-It residents always use.†  (source)
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    She was a thrifty and kind mistress, a good mother and a devoted wife.†  (source)
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    It was only Aunt Martha's thriftiness that enabled Uncle Max to keep it open.†  (source)
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    Yesterday, at Thrifty Car Rental in downtown D.C., she felt like she was walking a tightrope.†  (source)
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    The day is coming when great nations will find their numbers dwindling from census to census; when the six roomed villa will rise in price above the family mansion; when the viciously reckless poor and the stupidly pious rich will delay the extinction of the race only by degrading it; whilst the boldly prudent, the thriftily selfish and ambitious, the imaginative and poetic, the lovers of money and solid comfort, the worshippers of success, art, and of love, will all oppose to the Force of Life the device of sterility.†  (source)
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    And there lay a small piece of broken hacksaw blade, the tiny length of steel that he'd picked up in his thriftiness at the building site without any intention of bringing it to camp.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood—at the head, I say, of this dilapidated wharf, which the tide often overflows, and along which, at the base and in the rear of the row of buildings, the track of many languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass—here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unthrifty means not and reverses the meaning of thrifty. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And more quietly, soberly, in this crowd, moved the older thriftier workmen: the true carpenters, the true masons, the true mechanics— the canny Scotch-Irish of North Carolina, the fishermen of the Virginia coast, the careful peasantry of the Middle-West, who had come to earn, to save, to profit from the war.†  (source)
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    Where the crust on the bread his mother bought was stiff and thick as card-board, this had a pliant yielding skin, thin as the thriftiest potato paring or the strip one unwound from a paper lead-pencil.†  (source)
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    And if a man will ask them privily, Why they be clothed so unthriftily,* *shabbily They right anon will rownen* in his ear, *whisper And sayen, if that they espied were, Men would them slay, because of their science: Lo, thus these folk betrayen innocence!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unthriftily means not and reverses the meaning of thriftily. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    No thrifty child had tucked a wad of gum under the table.†  (source)
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    Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.†  (source)
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    Posted separately, the "homespun" was a copy of John Quincy's Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, but before it could arrive, Jefferson had concluded that it must be some article of home-produced clothing, and so in reply to Adams wrote at length about the virtues of the spinning jenny and loom, and of the thriftiness of household manufactures.†  (source)
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