How to Use economize in a Sentence

economize

verb

• He was born into a wealthy family and never learned to economize.
• That’s the version of you that can play catch-up, that can downsize and economize now that the kids are launched, or at least close to takeoff.
  — Chuck Jaffe, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
• Others harden to the world around us and economize our feelings.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 25 July 2017
• One way to economize is to get patients out of the hospital sooner.
  — Austin Frakt, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2016
• By building high, Americold was able to use less space on the ground, and can economize on utility costs, Daigle said.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Viktor, a 35-year-old carpenter, says his small business has lost most of its clients, as they’ve been forced to economize.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 5 June 2022
• There's also a new chapter that explains how to economize time and money when cooking and how to avoid food waste.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 3 June 2022
• Consider ways to cut back or economize that won't cramp your lifestyle.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2019
• With one daughter headed to college and another just a few years away, Ron Baslow, a single dad, was looking for ways to economize.
  — Fox News, 20 June 2017
• James Bond may need to economize With 25 popular movies across six decades, Bond has cemented its place as a film franchise with few rivals.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 Oct. 2021
• His parents economized by buying him clothes that would fit for several years.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• In that market, the challenges ahead look a little different: there’s no consumer aversion to weird new products to overcome and strong pressures to economize on price.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 23 July 2019
• Over the past year, Celebrini has taught Curry how to economize his physical movements.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Child-care providers would have little reason to economize, since upselling would be an easier path to revenue, in the same way that colleges now compete to build the splashiest aquatics center.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• LeBeouf also argued that the city can economize by renovating part of the existing main jail building to house inmates.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• But while the district has economized in some areas and upended its accounting practices, it's been slow to retreat from some of the practices that landed it in hot water.
  — Marlene Sokol, Tampa Bay Times, 20 Feb. 2017
• Yet the longer shortages persist, putting upward pressure on wages, the greater the incentive for companies to turn to technology to economize on labor—and the longer the jobs recovery will take.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• Employers, having to pay their staff more, economize by hiring fewer people, the belief holds.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
• The practice of rooming strangers together is not just a means to economize, said Jason Robison, the group’s program director.
  — Doug Smith, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• For obvious reasons, many of us are trying to cut back on our spending right now—and when looking for ways to economize, forgoing trips to restaurants and bars is an obvious place to start.
  — Clare Finney, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
• Sending an all-female crew and a sperm bank lets a space program economize while also increasing the genetic diversity of the parental pool.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The ability to reduce time and labor and better economize resources comes quite handy during the current labor shortage.
  — Vaidya Aiyer, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• The Williams family has managed to economize while sheltering at home during the pandemic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020
• If tech workers want to economize on time spent grocery shopping or a busy person faces the choice between grabbing an unhealthy meal at a fast-food joint or bringing along some Soylent, why should anyone complain?
  — Rob Reich, Time, 10 Sep. 2021
• Builders and engineers are trying out a lot of ways to economize on concrete without compromising safety.
  — M. Mitchell Waldrop, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
• In 2014, facing a budgetary crisis, officials of this poor, majority-black city economized by changing its water source to the Flint River.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
• Kroger's results showed signs of customers economizing.
  — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2023
• Iranians were being forced to economize, trading lunch at kebab restaurants for cheap pleasures like sugary snacks.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• DeJoy, the postmaster general and a major Trump donor, says the recent moves — which included the removal of four delivery bar code sorters from Baltimore — were part of a long-term effort to economize.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• Some housewives have spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on their hosts, working extra jobs, economizing on groceries, or extorting their husbands.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024