Sparingly Quotations

Medical parole has traditionally been used only sparingly across the country, despite the savings it could provide for prisons and despite the senselessness of keeping terminally ill men and women behind razor wire.

He has stepped up for us all year. For a kid that played sparingly last year to step in and take care of the ball -- he just does a great job. He takes care of the ball, doesn't force anything and when he has to, he knocks down his free throws.

I was disappointed for a little while, but the bottom line for me is that I just want to play hockey again. Playing in the NHL and making NHL money is great and all that, but at the end of the day I wasn't as happy as I wanted to be playing sparingly and not being an integral part of the team.

We don't have an 'extremely critical' ranking very often. We use the rating sparingly so people will know when the danger is very serious.

Um, ah, and, you know, like, are words that ought to be used sparingly when speaking in public.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.

It's been bothering him all season. We've been using him sparingly all year so far.

If he blew it out today (Fri-day), we might lose him for the whole series. We tried to give him a rest and use him sparingly after today.