Sentence examples for thrifty of from inspiring English sources

We suspect he uses this little business transaction as a means of saying hello to us without the trouble of writing "hello".... Sidney is a Yankee, & thrifty of both energy & cash.

The word was at first applied to the careful apportionment of food, but Shakespeare in his 1598 "Merry Wives of Windsor" used it as a metaphor to mean "sparingly supplied; thrifty" of anything, as, "I was then Frugall of my mirth".

In particular, they chose to operate the financial and banking system as though Japan were an economy short of savings, when in reality centuries of uncertainty about the future always likely to be punctuated by earthquakes, typhoons, tsunami and volcanic eruptions have made the Japanese among the most thrifty of peoples.

Short-haul business travellers around the world have grown accustomed to the thriftiest of seats.

But in addition to completists, the digital release of "1" may appeal to the thriftiest of the band's fans.

El Al is hoping that even the thriftiest of Israel's new budget travellers will stand by that preference.

Basic jobseeker's allowance amounts to about £65 a week, which even the thriftiest of people might struggle to survive on.

But cheap flights, discounted passes and fewer blackout days on ski-and-stay packages will lure even the thriftiest of skiers — not to mention the earlier-than-expected snowstorms that buried the West last month.

For most of us the thrifty buzz of getting a good deal can't compare.

"It goes against a lot of thrifty Iowans' idea of what's a good use of money," said Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network.

Briefly, the first, hepatic element of the programme (i.e. thrifty use of fuel) is induced by early life growth restriction irrespective of the reason for that growth restriction, and as such all except the AD/Sal cohorts are programmed to be thrifty.