Example sentences for: frugality

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

  • If anything, what really conveys those values of convenience and frugality is the company's name, and in that sense the ads take advantage of one of buy.com's real strengths ("strength" here being entirely a relative term).

  • Instead of looking forward to extravagance, he likes to anticipate his own future frugality.

  • Meanwhile, the hard-times ethic of fiscal austerity has given way to a good-times ethic of "invest and grow," which frowns on frugality.

  • Karmazin's relentless focus on shareholder value and his essential frugality as an executive have long distinguished him from the media moguls--like Redstone--who spent much of the '80s and early '90s borrowing huge sums of money to make questionable acquisitions and engage in hostile takeover battles.

  • If you enjoy contemplating your own future extravagance (as opposed to frugality) then Krusell/Smith reasoning suggests something even more bizarre: The more you expect to be extravagant in the future, the more you'll save to finance that future extravagance.


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