thrift - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • encourage: A hundred years later, Gladstone wanted government annuities sold at every post office to encourage thrift.
  • include: Larger worm burdens can cause a range of problems including ill thrift, diarrhea, colic and death.
  • get: Existing customers get short thrift however if they receive say, a new viewing card which happens to be faulty.
  • promote: It promotes thrift in spending and order to ones life, helping on to define goals.
  • discourage: Also disagreement over whether it would promote or discourage thrift.
  • practice: For a town or country laborer to practice thrift would be absolutely immoral.

Adjective modifier

  • short: Existing customers get short thrift however if they receive say, a new viewing card which happens to be faulty.
  • pink: These can produce large areas of color in the summer such as areas of pink Thrift and drifts of purple Sea Lavender.
  • ill: Larger worm burdens can cause a range of problems including ill thrift, diarrhea, colic and death.
  • great: Stronger effort, more enterprise and inventiveness, and greater thrift can only be encouraged by lower taxes.

Modifies a noun

  • store: Thrift stores are another good place to look; I love going to dollar stores just to see what I can find.
  • shop: Who needs to spend three months making a jumper you can buy down the thrift shop for pennies.
  • tip: Do you have a thrift tip, bargain idea or legal money-making suggestion for future students?
  • club: This aims to encourage saving by offering money management training and setting up thrift clubs to help members save and to support continued learning.
  • management: In short, you're in thrift management mode.
  • T-shirt: I walk past the rows of identical fake thrift store t-shirts in a thrift store t-shirt and feel slightly odd.

Noun used with modifier

  • sea: Hedges burst with color and the estuary turns a shade of pink in June as sea thrift blooms.

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