stingy - use in sentences

Preposition: with

  • holiday: Other Related Gripes People standing in the way Employers stingy with holiday Why do the British queue so much?
  • relief: Daniel Drezner has a go at clearing things up: 1 ) Is the United States stingy with disaster relief?
  • aid: Drezner goes on: 2 ) Beyond humanitarian relief, is the United States stingy with aid?

Modifies a noun

  • portion: Also, with the tomato coming in rather a stingy portion there is very little moisture from the fillings either.
  • man: He does not waste his property and neither is he a stingy man.
  • thing: She - " " You want her all to yourself, you stingy old thing!
  • side: The soup was lovely but the two small pieces of sliced french bread seemed a bit on the stingy side!
  • people: Perfect for stingy people with both a conscience and good taste in music.

Modifying Another Word

  • too: All the tracks are as previous, so it looks like they were just too stingy to shell out for the artwork!
  • so: I really have to move on very quickly because you've been so stingy with time.
  • very: Similarly, the tomato was okay but there was a very stingy portion of it as well - 2 slices in the entire sandwich.
  • not: I am not stingy in compliments to him myself.
  • little: The crispy duck with pancakes was superb, although they were a little stingy on the plum sauce.
  • quite: We were all quite stingy, apart from Jonathan Fullarton, who owes the museum £ 100.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Article continues The Blairs have always seemed stingy in a way that only the British middle class can be.
  • become: The exceptions are women aged over 54 and men over 60, who should contract in simply because the contracting-out payment becomes too stingy.

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