STINGY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for STINGY, such as:

1. Her father is very rich and stingy.
2. He's really stingy and never buys the drinks when we go out.
3. There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy.
4. I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow.
5. In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'

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 Meanings and Examples of STINGY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stingy
 a.  stinging; able to sting
Classic Sentence:
1  Her father is very rich and stingy.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
2  There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  He gave money for the erection of temples and supplemented as far as he could the collection of alms, in regard to which the majority of members were stingy and irregular.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
4  Blachevelle is very stingy; there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to eat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
5  In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
Example Sentence:
1  I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it.
2  He's really stingy and never buys the drinks when we go out.