Sentence examples similar to not so thrifty from inspiring English sources

Not so in thrifty Sweden, where one retailer has announced plans to donate their stocks of horsemeat-tainted lasagne to the homeless.

Serve lets you transfer money into sub-accounts (great for older kids, or not-so-thrifty spouses), or to non-Serve members.

Yet China has not always been so thrifty — in the eighties, consumption was more than fifty per cent of G.D.P. — and today other "Confucian" countries consume far more than China does.

(In Chinese, the words for "department store" translate literally as: One Hundred Products Company) In a city overstuffed with luxury brand flagship stores and glitzy malls, Wing On is a practical, thrifty treasure, beloved by locals, not so well-known to tourists.

But Fjords are so thrifty metabolically, they can get fat on too much grass, so they aren't allowed to graze for long.

Ah, the Rockefellers, so rich and yet so thrifty!

The concern is sustainability: will future governments be so thrifty?

Not least from thrifty Swabians' point of view, the costs will soar far beyond forecasts, the protesters argue.

He was so thrifty that he would bring home chemicals to do the family dry cleaning in the bathtub.

The dates nicknamed "Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction" were not selling so well today, the first day of Ramadan, at the wholesale market where thrifty Cairenes purchase their holiday treats.

I'm not advocating the thrifty eating of leftovers.