PARSIMONY in a Sentence

Learn PARSIMONY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for PARSIMONY, such as:
1. Because her father wouldn't let her buy a new iPhone, Annie accused him of parsimony.
2. At no point in their history had the Dreevers been what one might call a parsimonious family.
3. Nevertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, where the tendency is rather to prodigality than to parsimony.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PARSIMONY
parsimony
 n.  extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
Classic Sentence:
1  Nevertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, where the tendency is rather to prodigality than to parsimony.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  Because her father wouldn't let her buy a new iPhone, Annie accused him of parsimony.
2  At no point in their history had the Dreevers been what one might call a parsimonious family.
3  As Apple embraces streaming, the worry for artists is that comparatively lucrative download sales will make way for parsimonious streaming payouts.