Sentence examples for get stingy from inspiring English sources

Campaigners for single parents and the poor say a recession is no time to get stingy.

If employers get stingy, you might want to avoid health care companies that got their revenues from more generous coverage.

First make an enormous financial expenditure for something ridiculously showy/unnecessary, then cut corners and get stingy on the cheapest items, the very building blocks of education--paper, books, whiteboard markers, properly sized desks, quiet (and appropriately-sized) classrooms.

The upshot is that the bulging cohort of the elderly will probably be forced to work well into what today is considered old age, and then get stingier pensions when they eventually retire.

But as deficits weigh and budgets get stingier, are ITSA's funding priorities more vulnerable than those of other groups, especially well-organized interests like the road builders?

Teen apparel retailers suffer as consumers get stingier.

But the Phillies tied it in the third, Burrell put them ahead in the sixth, and Schilling got stingy.

Then I grew up and got stingy about making purchases while away, because I'm all too aware of how much the trip is costing.

The irony is that despite public perceptions, the outcry over Wall Street greed is happening just as the firms are getting stingy.

Two years ago HSBC Chairman John Bond got stingy with bonuses and let most of the bank's corporate finance team walk out the door.

And if the designer labels are getting stingy, the hip-hop clothiers will provide.