How to use "thrift" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "thrift" in popular movie and book plots

  • Feeling homesick, Ellie keeps in touch with her best friend in Israel telling her about their new television and shopping in thrift stores.  - Foreign Letters
  • Instead of accepting this, Neal heads for a local thrift shop, where he meets June, a wealthy elderly widow.  - Pilot (White Collar)
  • Alison (Susan Misner) walks in, hoping to surprise Jenny with shoes she bought from a thrift store until Jenny flatly rejects the shoes.  - Hi, Society
  • Maddie Duncan (Helen Mirren) is a timid thrift store employee.  - Dead Woman's Shoes
  • Instead he gets a lecture on thrift from Iris Tuttle, the head of the board, who has been his enemy for twenty years.  - Rationing (film)
  • He meets Lady Britt Dorset, a spend thrift aristocrat.  - Perfect Friday
  • She donates some of the stolen money to a Salvation Army worker and donates the suit to a second-hand thrift shop.  - Penelope (1966 film)
  • Pecker's mother (Mary Kay Place) is no longer free to dispense fashion tips to the homeless clientele at her thrift shop.  - Pecker (film)
  • Jack comes home one night and surprises Andie with a pink dress he bought for her at a thrift shop.  - Pretty in Pink
  • Inside a thrift store donation box, Calvin finds a pair of old sneakers that were used by Michael Jordan.  - Like Mike

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