Example sentences for: thrift

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

  • Harkness, who used to safeguard her money in thrift accounts, claims to have made money in the market.

  • You could get a black dress or black suit for lots of money, but that was only occasionally permissible and mostly not possible; and there were no thrift shops full of interesting castoffs.

  • When they do so, they will find that parable of the widow's cruse--a marvelous tidbit on the rewards of vigorous consumption spending as opposed to parsimony, niggardliness, and thrift.

  • That 1994 experience proved that one cannot rely on the Federal Reserve to offset the workings of the paradox of thrift.

  • But the defining characteristic of a therapeutic bill is its thrift: It doesn't increase the budget; it requires no new taxes; and it offends no special-interest group.


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