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Example sentences for: thrift

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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.
Now, if Keynes' interest-rate theory is not so easily written off, perhaps we should also look again at that paradox of thrift.
Very cool Main Street celebrates everything from thrift shops to chic boutiques.
The Los Angeles Times lead is that California thrift institution Home Savings is being bought by Seattle-based Washington Mutual, creating the nation's seventh-largest financial institution.
And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.