When she stinted and scrimped and saved on shoe-leather for the happiness of it?
It was all for his son and his family pride that he toiled and scrimped and did shady tricks so that when the time came he could restore the family fortunes and uphold the dignity of the house.
I don't see but you have scrimped to the last degree.
What a contrast was this rich country, warm with color and suggestive of abundance, to the pale and scrimped coast land of Maine denuded of its trees!
Why should the little white houses of the prosperous little villages on the line of the rail seem cold and suggest winter, and the land seem scrimped and without an atmosphere?
Back home here the Hadleys scrimped an' scrimpedtill they didn't have half enough ter eat, an' hardly enough ter cover their nakedness.
She scrimped on the sugar and the cinnamon, you see, and you wouldn't have known what you were eating.
She scrimped over the pennies, and then threw away dollars for something which even to Elaine's inexperience was plainly not indispensable.
And I know how you have pinched and scrimped and worked, to give me the education that I was bound to need.
This disaster was a very real one to many who had scrimpedand saved--like the Bassetts--for a bank account.
They never have had any good of the money they scrimped so hard to save; or of Captain Jethro's legacy, either.
For many years she and Tobias had worked, and she had scrimped and saved, against that "rainy day" that is the dread of most cautious souls of middle age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrimped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
