| 1 | You'd better mend your fence falling down, or you will be stolen, don't be penny and pound foolish. | |
| 2 | Dick's heart trouble became worse because he wouldn't spend money to see a doctor at the beginning; he was indeed penny wise and pound foolish. | |
| 3 | He refused to spend money in repairing the roof, and now the rain has ruined half his furniture- a plain example of penny wise and pound foolish. |