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How to use the word frugal in a Sentence?

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She’s the baby boomer, mid 50’s, lives in the suburbs, works, is frugal, has a household income well over $100,000 a year and has or had children at home. – Jerome Griffith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's been big movement in most of Europe's capitals in recognition of the scale of the challenge, that's decidedly what you're not getting from the' Frugal Four.' It's effectively a restatement of old positions. – Mujtaba Rahman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 4 years ago
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
The guy Haberkorn — who is a professional personal injury lawyer — did a number on me, then he looked me up, found out who my dad is, and saw dollar signs when he learned my name. He assumed I was a billionaire, which I’m not, i live on a budget like anyone else, I get a monthly allowance, I am not shopping on Madison Avenue, I take the subway, and I am very frugal. I am not Paris Hilton. – Jack Kent Cooke	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's frugal innovation at its best, with the right resources and mentoring, they can do so much more. And these can be applied in slums, in cities everywhere. – Nawneet Ranjan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We need to save money and be frugal because we don't know what politics will be like in the future. – Bunruen Klinnak	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The queen is extraordinarily frugal as a person, the most she's into are a few race horses. – Philip Beresford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The golden rule with kit is to take less than you think you need, you have to lug that all uphill, and no matter how frugal you are, you will find yourself after a week's touring at the post office with a box of stuff being posted home. – Mark Beaumont	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Holding the Games in a frugal way is not a slogan, it's a reality, we will make full use of our current sports facilities and strictly control construction costs. – Mayor Wang Anshun	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He was unbelievably frugal. – Laurie Rowell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly. – Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)	added by anonymous 13 years ago

She’s the baby boomer, mid 50’s, lives in the suburbs, works, is frugal, has a household income well over $100,000 a year and has or had children at home.

– Jerome Griffith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's been big movement in most of Europe's capitals in recognition of the scale of the challenge, that's decidedly what you're not getting from the' Frugal Four.' It's effectively a restatement of old positions.

– Mujtaba Rahman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter - with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

The guy Haberkorn — who is a professional personal injury lawyer — did a number on me, then he looked me up, found out who my dad is, and saw dollar signs when he learned my name. He assumed I was a billionaire, which I’m not, i live on a budget like anyone else, I get a monthly allowance, I am not shopping on Madison Avenue, I take the subway, and I am very frugal. I am not Paris Hilton.

– Jack Kent Cooke

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's frugal innovation at its best, with the right resources and mentoring, they can do so much more. And these can be applied in slums, in cities everywhere.

– Nawneet Ranjan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We need to save money and be frugal because we don't know what politics will be like in the future.

– Bunruen Klinnak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The queen is extraordinarily frugal as a person, the most she's into are a few race horses.

– Philip Beresford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The golden rule with kit is to take less than you think you need, you have to lug that all uphill, and no matter how frugal you are, you will find yourself after a week's touring at the post office with a box of stuff being posted home.

– Mark Beaumont

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Holding the Games in a frugal way is not a slogan, it's a reality, we will make full use of our current sports facilities and strictly control construction costs.

– Mayor Wang Anshun

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He was unbelievably frugal.

– Laurie Rowell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

– Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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