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Six example sentences with frugal, each labelled with its topic.
Two frugal decades let the couple retire at fifty-five on a salary neither of their neighbors would have considered enough.
Finance
A frugal kitchen keeps the chicken carcass, the parmesan rind, and the fennel tops, and turns all three into stock.
Cooking
Frugal travelers book the night train, which saves them a hotel and delivers them to the coast by breakfast.
Travel
The frugal founders worked from a borrowed garage for two years and bought their first desks secondhand.
Startups
Farmers in the dry valley are frugal with water, running drip lines at night so nothing is lost to the sun.
Environment
The frugal airline charges for everything but the seat, and its costs per flight are the lowest in Europe.
Business
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Found in 8 published word lists
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)Recognized
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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