Sentence examples for more miserly from inspiring English sources

The menus show that the bountiful seas of centuries past have become more miserly in recent decades.

Banks, blamed for lending too generously to LTCM and its fellow hedge funds before, are now being more miserly.

That also lets the battery dole out power at a variable rate, which is more miserly than the consistent draw of conventional battery-powered gloves.

Thus, in one experiment, students who had been "accidentally" exposed to brand names associated with thrift, like Wal-Mart and the Dollar Store, tended to act more miserly, in a hypothetical situation, than they otherwise would have.

If India are to improve on their poor Super Eights showing of last year, then there needs to be more of a cutting edge from Zaheer Khan and more miserly mid-innings spells from Ravindra Jadeja and Harbhajan Singh.

"There's no question Corzine's been the more miserly of the two," said Fred Siegel, a visiting professor at St. Francis College in Brooklyn who has been a consistent critic of the mayor.

The Dockers' evergreen veteran Michael Johnson will bring up his 200th game here as part of a defensive group which has now been labeled "miserly" more often than George Costanza.

Unison regional secretary in Wales Margaret Thomas said: "Our members working in the Welsh NHS have sent a clear message that they are worth more than a miserly £160.

Essential Cookbooks: The Joy of Cooking, Betty Crocker, Better Homes and Gardens, The Way to Cook, Living on a Dime (or Not Just Beans by the same author), Frugal Family Kitchen Book, More-With-Less cookbook, Miserly Meals: Healthy, Tasty Recipes Under 75¢ per Serving, 15-Minute Cooking or Feed Your Family for $12 a Day or Eat Healthy for $50 a Week.

In his dissent on the airline case, Justice Stevens not only urged a more "generous rather than a miserly construction" of the law, but also raised an interesting point: "It is especially ironic to deny protection for persons with substantially limiting impairments that, when corrected, render them fully able and employable".

"[It would be] akin to the American declaration of independence, something that would be much more handsome, and not a miserly poetry, but something that accompanies and sits alongside the constitution but doesn't sit along the constitution proper," he told Radio National.