How to Use parsimonious in a Sentence

parsimonious

adjective
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  • The new bridge will have to be simple and parsimonious, but not trivial.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Packed with popular standard tech features and parsimonious with your gas money, the Rio is a good car at a great price.
    — Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Even the most parsimonious among us would be hard pressed to put all their discretionary income toward a savings goal.
    — Kim Porter, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There is a parsimonious version of the defense of free speech that holds that the only thing that Americans should worry about is infringement by the state.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Most of my partners were parsimonious in their spending habits, preferring to eat while on duty at the many hospitals and burger joints that served the cops gratis.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 May 2020
  • Hotter fields, like say biotech, where the stakes are patents and venture capital, reward a more parsimonious approach.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 May 2018
  • Arthur is by turns retiring and pointed, with a soft, cublike appearance and a tight, parsimonious grin.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • The string of modest contracts left them vulnerable to critics who felt Bloom had the Sox behaving more like parsimonious Tampa Bay than a team with one of the largest revenue streams — and one of the largest payrolls — in the game.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • To Democratic politicians who think wealth is a foregone conclusion that can just be taken, the Russians and their leader in Vladimir Putin must come off as rather parsimonious.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The compensation for this relative growth malaise is a sea of profits, at least by Amazon’s parsimonious standards.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2019
  • On the hidden costs of being cheap: My mother was parsimonious with tips and quick to complain about everything from smokers at a nearby table to the quality of the salad dressing.
    — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 4 July 2017
  • Specifically, a few lean toward the precious and parsimonious, like slices of alabaster fluke adorned with tiny maitake mushrooms and shreds of aromatic celery leaf, or hamachi adorned with mint and scarlet slices of plum.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
  • The centre, which should be transferring part of its tax revenues or borrowing and passing it on to states, given the dire emergency, has been parsimonious in sharing resources.
    — Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Altered Plates’ Burkons is less parsimonious in her assessment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In comparison to the gleam of the crown, the contemporary suit is aesthetically parsimonious.
    — Hazlitt, 12 May 2022
  • This blueprint, called a schema, keeps data entry reliable, search efficient, and the system parsimonious.
    — Rida Qadri, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • U.S. Medicare patients whose doctors spent more on tests, scans and consultations were as likely to die within a month of leaving the hospital as patients with more parsimonious physicians, new research shows.
    — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2017
  • And as the economy began to expand, companies remained parsimonious on wages and benefits, and continued to push the obligation and cost of training onto workers.
    — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 13 July 2017
  • Yet there is no question that large-scale works draw the most attention to a new composer, and Rosner, parsimonious in the extreme, focused these recordings largely on music for voice and piano, or for small chamber combinations.
    — Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • The result turned out to be far removed from anything resembling a potential Depp vehicle — and not just because the film was produced by the famously parsimonious Blumhouse Productions.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Available as a single or double, the Warbler's cheeseburger is a compromise between smashed and tavern styles, a resolutely thin, almost parsimonious patty with not-quite-crispy edges, a coarse grind, and a rare center.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 29 Mar. 2018
  • For example: one way the draft legislation would slash Medicaid spending is by transferring funds from states that spend lots of money per Medicaid enrollee to more parsimonious states.
    — Alex Altman, Time, 27 June 2017
  • In short, profits are an elegant and parsimonious way of promoting efficiency within a business as well as society at large.
    — Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Part of the explanation for the new Vette's parsimonious fuel usage is cylinder deactivation.
    — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The number-crunching chairman was also parsimonious about store investments.
    — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
  • Even compared with other wealthy skinflints, Paul was strikingly parsimonious.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Led by the proudly parsimonious yet reliably progressive Brown and bolstered by the economic hothouse that is Silicon Valley, California has become the sixth biggest economy in the world.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2017
  • No wonder managers are chastised for being too parsimonious, or too indecisive.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Their merchant princes were supposed to be parsimonious and austere: fustian in apparel and coarse in diet.
    — Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, 1988
  • Carril frowned upon stretching, grudgingly allowed water breaks and was even more parsimonious with compliments, afraid that his players would become complacent.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022

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