Example sentences for: frugal

How can you use “frugal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an age of open and (ostensibly) frugal public administration, the Secret Service is an anomaly, an agency that operates with nearly as much secrecy as the CIA and spends almost as freely as its heart desires.

  • If you're a pessimist and don't trust your future self to be frugal, then you might as well spend all your money today so it doesn't fall into the hands of that future spendthrift.

  • Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713–1740) despised the baroque glitter of his parents’ court, and subjected the previously easy-going Berliners to a frugal, rigid concept of Preussentum (Prussianness), that is, unquestioning obedience to the ruler and his administrators, and sharply defined class distinctions, affirming the supremacy of the aristocracy and officer class and that of soldiers over civilians in general.

  • Will Tina's notorious lavishness irk the frugal duo?

  • Suppose you want to be frugal in the future.


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