Sentence examples for thrifty when compared to from inspiring English sources
The Mazda3 has an Environmental Protection Agency rating of 29 miles per gallon on the highway, which seems thrifty when compared to big sport utility vehicles but somewhat disappointing when compared to cars with substantially more horsepower.
Previous research -- and numerous thrifty shoppers -- have compared food costs based on the price per calorie, a practice that makes high-calorie fast food seem like a bargain when compared to veggies and fruit, the AP reported.
It was a thrifty plan, at least compared to other Olympics.
That will be a hurdle for thrifty Chinese consumers, especially if gas prices stay relatively low compared to their highs last summer.
Despite the gilded magnificence of such pieces, compared to those of the French or English royal houses, Austrian rulers were by and large thrifty and moderate in their choice of interiors.
"I don't go splashing a lot of cash about or buying extravagant things, but I am not thrifty when it comes to day-to-day spending," she says.
With little oxygen in their lungs, the whales have to be thrifty when it comes to using the gas on their dives.
Be thrifty when it comes to wine, by all means, but be very careful at the same time.
Brazil has a population of 55 million dogs - the world's second biggest dog in the world after the US - and "dog parents" are not thrifty when it comes to taking care of their "kids".
As legend has it, Thomas Sullivan, a tea merchant based in New York, was only trying to be thrifty when in June 1908 he stumbled upon an innovation that would change the world.
