Sentence examples for less thrifty from inspiring English sources
Automakers downsized engines as they upped the technology, adding direct fuel injection, turbocharging or supercharging to replace less thrifty engines of more size and cylinders.
New cookbooks as economic indicators: "100 Meals for $5 or Less: Thrifty Meals in Tough Economic Times," "Eat Cheap But Eat Well: The Poor Chef Cookbook," and "Taste of Home Dinner on a Dime".
Add to this taxpayers' disgust at having to stand behind the public debts of less thrifty countries, and the idea of abandoning the euro looks enticing to some Germans.
It would help a France or Italy to expand and invigorate their private sector if only Germany - and the Netherlands - were less thrifty, if the Northern Europeans bought a bit more from the rest of the world than they sell.
They will be less thrifty and not as good as calves that are kept from older cows.
Some years she focused on saving and paying down her student loans from attending Harvard and Columbia, while in other years she was less thrifty.
With diesel fuel still more expensive than regular unleaded, the E.P.A. figures an annual fuel cost of $1,750 for the Cruze diesel, just $250 less than the thrifty 1.8-liter gasoline version.
Mr Huang, now given licence to say what he really thinks about some of his long-standing customers, believes more thrifty and less extravagant bureaucrats will be good for business.
In contrast, Europeans are less likely to possess thrifty genotypes as they evolved in environments that were least affected by the feast and famine cycles.
If the setting was "thrifty," because of less than optimal fetal nutrition, the individual would be metabolically and physiologically ill suited to adapt to the nutritional prosperity of postnatal life in most developed countries.
The costs and other trade-offs of energy efficiency are often conveniently hidden from view, and the prospect of using less energy appeals to the thrifty instincts of consumers as well as to the moral sensibilities of environmentalists.
