Sentence examples for thrifty generation from inspiring English sources

The first thing worth noting is that today's old-age pensioners are a thrifty generation.

Seeing their parents lose savings, or suffer through unemployment, made them a thrifty generation — a slice of the population that shares its resources and has no problem calling mom and dad "roomies" to save a buck.

Of the few good things that came out of the Great Recession, creating a thrifty generation that appreciates the value of a buck and the need to save may be one of them.

Far from being spoiled and entitled, she says, they're more like the hardworking, conscientious and thrifty generation that came of age in the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War Il.

There was a kind of perfect storm, as he sees it: Older, thriftier generations were doing less cooking.

He was spotted by Bloomsbury cronies telling housewives on the newsreels how they must abjure the thrifty habits of generations.

Teams were slightly less thrifty in the subsequent generation: in 1947, when the Yankees began their run of 15 first-place finishes in 18 years, the team averaged 39 players.

It's a very thrifty place, in general.

The ones who did this best were the ones most likely to survive and to pass on the thrifty genotype to the next generation.

But the government will give a damn when it has to cover the costs of a whole generation of formerly thrifty, conscientious Britons who have nothing because they have saved nothing.

As a girl, I was taught to hem and to replace buttons, of course, because the thrifty housewives who raised my generation had no idea that when people like me grew up, we would delegate those tasks to the dry cleaner and the tailor.