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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arthur is by turns retiring and pointed, with a soft, cublike appearance and a tight, parsimonious grin.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Hotter fields, like say biotech, where the stakes are patents and venture capital, reward a more parsimonious approach.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 May 2018
  • And sometimes the truest, most parsimonious explanation is just kind of boring.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2024
  • 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 financial pressures of the toy industry forced Chung to be parsimonious.
    — Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
  • His father was intensely parsimonious as well, and once tried to build a front fence by hammering bookshelves together.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Chelsea are famously parsimonious in the transfer market, after all.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Altered Plates’ Burkons is less parsimonious in her assessment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • If the physical action is doled out in parsimonious bites, the verbal action is an extravagant feast of double helpings.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The compensation for this relative growth malaise is a sea of profits, at least by Amazon’s parsimonious standards.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2019
  • This blueprint, called a schema, keeps data entry reliable, search efficient, and the system parsimonious.
    — Rida Qadri, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Even compared with other wealthy skinflints, Paul was strikingly parsimonious.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The number-crunching chairman was also parsimonious about store investments.
    — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
  • The financial rewards accrued from streaming and downloading have been parsimonious.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 28 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The latter offers a more judicious form of clemency, but only on a parsimonious, individual basis.
    — Bernadette Meyler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • In comparison to the gleam of the crown, the contemporary suit is aesthetically parsimonious.
    — Hazlitt, 12 May 2022
  • This one seemed slow and turgid, and the Australian attack was parsimonious, with only the sixth bowler used, Ash Gardner, going at more than 10 runs an over in her three overs.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Part of the explanation for the new Vette's parsimonious fuel usage is cylinder deactivation.
    — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • The eye, though, is much more parsimonious, focusing its attention only on a small part of the visual scene at any one time—namely, the part of the scene that changes, like the fluttering of a leaf or a golf ball splashing into water.
    — Christoph Posch, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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