Synonyms for sparingly
spar·ing·ly

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1. meagerly, sparingly, slenderly, meagrelyadverb

   to a meager degree or in a meager manner

   "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"

   Synonyms:
   slenderly, slimly, slightly, meagrely, meagerly

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1. List of paraphrases for "sparingly":

   frugally, moderately

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How to use sparingly in a sentence?

1. Jesta Kugarira:

   It will not take us far so we will have to eat sparingly.

2. Fatima Cody Stanford:

   I try to get patients to deviate as much as they can or consume it sparingly.

3. Wolfgang Schaeuble:

   We will have to change our lives, it's certainly a great pleasure to fly off to the Maldives or visit Venice. But in future we will have to indulge that pleasure more sparingly.

4. Constance Houck:

   This study reinforces the concerns that having more opioid medications in a household may put other family members at risk, the take home message from this study is that opioids should be used sparingly for the treatment of pain and whenever possible combined with other medications such as NSAIDs and physical modalities such as ice or heat to reduce the amount needed.

5. Steve Vladeck:

   The Supreme Court unquestionably has the authority to provide the extraordinary relief the government is seeking in these cases, the Supreme Court said, The Supreme Court tends to exercise that authority sparingly.