Example sentences for: skimpy

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

  • dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.

  • Suddenly, after wearing sweatpants and T-shirts for five days, she put on this skimpy little black dress.

  • Hair revolutions are no longer as outrageous as they have been in recent decades, though; nor are skimpy garments.

  • House Republicans wanted skimpy coverage, while Senate Republicans and the White House wanted coverage at least as good as the high-quality benefits enjoyed by federal employees.

  • The site purported to display footage, picked up from an "NY University Dorm Cam," of young women dressed in skimpy clothing bearing the NYU insignia cavorting in a room decorated with NYU paraphernalia.


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