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skimp

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of skimp
Adjective
Elon Musk’s product reveals rarely, if ever, skimp on style. Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024 The caviar is often canned or frozen during the summer and fall to enjoy during the long winters—a taste of sunshine when our daylight hours are shortened to a skimp five. Irina Groushevaia, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2021
Verb
Truly, skimping on this step will render everything else futile. Essence, 23 Sep. 2025 After months of diligently mowing, weeding, and watering your lawn through summer, don't be tempted to skimp on lawn care at the end of the season. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skimp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skimp
Adjective
  • Details remain scarce, but Netflix says that players will have to undergo physical and mental challenges in order to receive clues, with characters like the aforementioned Mustard, Professor Plum and others all represented.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And don’t forget to keep filling the DesGully Window Bird Feeder all winter long—birds come to rely on that food source, especially when the weather’s cold and the food is scarce.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Blood is always poised and ready to clot, because the body sees this as a life-saving mechanism.
    Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Is intuitive budgeting effective for saving money?
    Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For now, Swifties only have the song titles, multiple variant covers, and sparse details shared during the singer’s two-hour long New Heights podcast appearance to shape their understanding of the album.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The pros and cons of sparse attention An AI model makes decisions based on its training data and new information, such as a prompt.
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But his immediate contrition was not enough to spare him a red card at the next break in play, or to disguise the fact that nerves are fraying everywhere — not least in the coach’s office.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells.
    Aimee Pugh Bernard, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Iran can achieve that by abandoning water-hungry crops, shifting to smart farming, conserving every drop, and reviving flood-management techniques Iranians once mastered to recharge depleted aquifers.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Overwintering October Magic® Ivory™ Camellia plants benefit from a layer of mulch in winter to moderate soil temperatures and conserve moisture.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The system reduces emissions, noise, and vibration while economizing on fuel and maintenance costs.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Nonperishables that come in aluminum or steel cans — think beans, chickpeas, and soups — are typically thought of as a way for shoppers to economize.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • Kang Ha-neul plays a young man who has been scrimping and saving his whole life to buy his own apartment, only to discover that living so close to strangers brings its own problems.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 18 July 2025
  • To her, people who scrimped and saved and eked out a mean existence were as idiotic as people who got themselves into debt.
    Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025

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“Skimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skimp. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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