Duty

Usage examples of stint.

For the purpose of his grand project he was quite willing to spend a long stint on Barchan, studying the Dreamsea flora and fauna and shoehorning every misfit species into his scheme.

On the board, was often wearied by the frequently politicized squabbles ever which of many underfunded legal projects should be stinted.

It was thousands and thousands of waders, stints and knots and redshanks and the like, flying in batches, each batch making the noise of a great wave on a beach.

Small warblers and flycatchers flitted from thicket to tall tree, while tiny stints, redstarts, and shrikes darted from branch to branch.

Scattered among them are many odd stints and sanderlings and ringed-plovers.

Cooksey had a clear-cut idea of what he wanted to do after his prison stint, so when Barb wrangled him an interview for an opening on the Speedway custodial crew he went along with the idea, at least at first, but he also went to his uncle Tom Alton and got a false identity made up in the name of Cooksey, not Corcoran, that described a man recently discharged from the U.

He let Camilla go her own way, and stinted himself that she might have money to spend.

Her stints below, shoveling coal into the ever-hungry buckets, had been like sentences to hell.

It was an excellent piece of equipment, the finest that could be had, for James was not stinting on anything for The Forks of Cypress.

Except for this ringing, my house was quiet - a sure sign that everyone had decided to let me sleep after my wee - hour janitorial stint.

Possession With Intent eight years earlier, the kid considered salvageable enough at the time to receive as an alternative to jail a two-year stint at New Dawn Village, a nonresidential rehab center over in Hudson County.

Their kid leather clutch bags stuffed with crumpled 1955 newsprint, and their morocco-leather-covered diaries with gold-leafed, onionskin pages, remained unopened, un confided in-well, they had had nothing to confide, for their emotional lives had been as stinted of the luxuries of passion and personal dramas as their cool and shallow bathwater had been bereft of emollients and scents.

Ludvik had just finished his stint in the Ostrava mines and had gone to Prague for permission to resume his studies.

Jane was a first-year student, just coming to the end of her stint on the busy paediatric ward, and she had been of invaluable help to Nicolette on her first morning at Southbury Hospital.

Caoutchouc City it is permitted to gaze without stint at the trees in the parks and at the physical blemishes of a fellow creature.