How to Use parsimonious in a Sentence

parsimonious

adjective

• 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
• The financial pressures of the toy industry forced Chung to be parsimonious.
  — Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Hers was a parsimonious approach, leaving a good inch or inch-and-a-half of outer crust untouched by any ingredient.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• 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
• In a perfect and parsimonious world, a single two-stage spacecraft would land on Mars, scoop up soil samples in situ, and transfer them to an ascent stage which would blast off into orbit.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
• And sometimes the truest, most parsimonious explanation is just kind of boring.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2024
• 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, idahostatesman, 3 July 2017
• 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, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
• 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, The Seattle Times, 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
• To attribute the corrosion of institutional trust to such bugbears as relativism or postmodernism is to ignore explanations that are both more concrete and more parsimonious.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025