ECONOMIZE in a Sentence

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They dined extravagantly at their hotel at night, and next morning sneaked round the corner to economize at a Childs' Restaurant.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECONOMIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
economize
 v.  save money or resource; cut back; be thrifty
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them, and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders, to whom fire was a novelty.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  You see I am obliged to economize, in case your prosperity should cease.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
4  It irritated her, but she was ashamed to confess it, and now and then she tried to console herself by buying something pretty, so that Sallie needn't think she had to economize.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
5  They dined extravagantly at their hotel at night, and next morning sneaked round the corner to economize at a Childs' Restaurant.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
7  In order to economize in the matter of time, we arranged to have the whole school pass in review before the President.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
8  The broader economic organization thus clearly demanded sprang up here and there as accident and local conditions determined.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
9  Naturally the Negroes resented, at first bitterly, signs of compromise which surrendered their civil and political rights, even though this was to be exchanged for larger chances of economic development.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
10  The average size of Negro families has undoubtedly decreased since the war, primarily from economic stress.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  Such an economic organization is radically wrong.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  This represents the lowest economic depths of the black American peasant; and in a study of the rise and condition of the Negro freeholder we must trace his economic progress from the modern serfdom.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
13  All social struggle is evidenced by the rise, first of economic, then of social classes, among a homogeneous population.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  To-day the following economic classes are plainly differentiated among these Negroes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  They have little to tide over a few years of economic depression, and are at the mercy of the cotton-market far more than the whites.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The hoped-for economic recovery in Britain did not arrive.
17  The establishment of new international economic order is the essence of his article.
18  The article gives us a real insight into the causes of the present economic crisis.
19  What he has tried to expound in this article bears on a key problem in our economic reform.
20  Conventional economic and accounting theory tends to assume that the process involved is highly rational and orderly.
21  Rising interest rates were an outward indication of the change in government attitude to economic controls.
22  With both countries experiencing economic revolutions, it might be time to redraw the traditional relationship.
23  I want to plant the slopes of the hills with trees of economic value.
24  From an economic point of view , the new development will benefit the town greatly.
25  The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
26  Recent economic doldrums have damaged the rural west.
27  The economic growth dipped to a low point last year.
28  Statistical anomalies can make it difficult to compare economic data from one year to the next.
29  The new regime has no successful economic reforms on which to build.
30  No new business can flourish in the present economic climate.