Examples of using "Avare" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom's greedy.
Don't be so greedy.
Nancy is economical with her smiles.
He is spare in words.
Don't be stingy.
You don't need to be stingy now.
He is very stingy with his money.
He is very frugal, but not stingy.
My uncle is generous with his money.
- I know that Tom is a bit stingy.
- I know Tom is a bit stingy.
It is true he is rich, but he is a miser.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.
My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.
"O say, / what manner of mankind is here? What land / is this, to treat us in this barbarous way? / They grudge the very shelter of the sand, / and call to arms and bar our footsteps from the strand!"
"Thus roused, her friends she gathers. All await / her summons, who the tyrant fear or hate. / Some ships at hand, chance-anchored in the bay / they seize and load them with the costly freight, / and far off o'er the deep is borne away / Pygmalion's hoarded pelf. A woman leads the way."
"Spare, O AEneas, spare a wretch, nor shame / thy guiltless hands, but let the dead repose. / From Troy, no alien to thy race, I came. / O, fly this greedy shore, these cruel foes! / Not from the tree – from Polydorus flows / this blood, for I am Polydorus. Here / an iron crop o'erwhelmed me, and uprose / bristling with pointed javelins."