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Example sentences for "thriftily"

Lexicographically close words:
thrie; thried; thries; thrifle; thrift; thriftiness; thriftless; thriftlesse; thriftlessness; thrifty
  1. Besides, I will adde thus out of counsell to you, that you can do nothing so thriftily as to keep in your purpose the payment of the rest of this years rent, (though at your conveniency) for Sir E.

  2. The writer, too, kept a copy of them, and thriftily made use of select passages at a later date, as we have seen.

  3. Q, Heard hee a trades-man swearing | Never so thriftily (selling of his wares).

  4. Heard hee a trades-man swearing, 360 Never so thriftily selling of his wares, He stood and laught.

  5. Never forget that a good tree grows as thriftily and surely as a poor one.

  6. Swarthy boys, wearied with much loafing, would thriftily lay aside their cigarettes to favor us with conversation, asking many questions about America, for whose recent action they gallantly declined to hold us responsible.

  7. Any California soil which will not grow young fruit trees thriftily should not be used for orchard purposes unless an amateur desires to grow trees on a picturesque lot of rocks or sand.

  8. If your trees are growing thriftily and have sufficiently goodsized leaves of good color, and if fruit of good size and quality is obtained, it is not necesssary to think of fertilization.

  9. As a boy he thriftily sold his Pilgrim's "Progress.

  10. The American pioneers were quite aware of what was going on in England, and they praised God or grumbled, thriftily profited by the results or quietly nullified them, as the case might be.

  11. Now, however, thanks to the efforts of Kruger Bobs, they were living thriftily and upon the fat of the land.

  12. Weldon asked, as he thriftily packed up his parcel and stowed it away in his pocket, with an eye to the gratitude of Kruger Bobs.

  13. So the poorer Chinese thriftily meet this requirement by making the sides and ends hollow!

  14. All three trees growing very thriftily and all set nuts this spring, but did not hold them.

  15. As a group they are mountain lovers preferring localities where the air drainage is particularly good, but many of them will grow thriftily and will fruit well on low grounds.

  16. The purser had thriftily laid in a large private supply of oranges and bananas for sale in San Francisco.

  17. It wasn’t of the sanguinary description; the bulls weren’t killed, but were thriftily kept in cold storage to fight another day.

  18. Thriftily taking advantage of the enthusiastic moment, I planned my article while I ate my dilapidated pie, and then proceeded to write it with the bill before me.

  19. Of the lace I made a dish, on which I thriftily served up bows of ribbon, like meat on toast.

  20. The Downings had hoped to have thriftily two marriages in the family in one day, but the daughter Luce's affairs also halted.

  21. Every Spring, Aunt Matilda made the year's supply of underclothing, using for the purpose coarse, unbleached muslin, thriftily purchased by the bolt.

  22. The few successful ones soon sprout into a number of young trees that grow thriftily until their crowns begin to meet.

  23. The trees which are native to the locality and are found growing thriftily on the woodlot, are the ones that have proven their adaptability to the local conditions and should therefore be the principal species used for underplanting.

  24. All our Northern fruits thriftily in the Sacramento Valley, and also the almond, of which thousands of trees have been planted, and a few considerable orchards are already in bearing.

  25. As the Queen was suspected of sympathy with the liberal government of Lord Melbourne which advised her, the toast of the sovereign was naturally received with a moderate amount of acclamation, decently and thriftily doled out.

  26. It is a curious but a characteristic circumstance not that so many of his Eton speeches were written out, but that the manuscript should have been thriftily preserved by him all through the long space of intervening years.

  27. Unwittingly, perhaps, yet none the less, has he paid his tribute to superstition, thus thriftily turned to account.

  28. In short, this hoary superstition is thriftily turned to account by every imaginable device to tickle the fancy or to turn a penny, although in being thus employed it has quite cut loose from its ancient traditions.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thriftily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carefully; economically; husbandly; sparingly