breadline

Example Sentences

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Myles and Creevy play a successful business owner and her new "down on her luck" cleaner who is living on the breadline, Barry said.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

When the tour’s over, I’m back on the breadline, honey.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

Meanwhile, Laurence Guinness, head of London-based anti-poverty charity the Childhood Trust, said the high cost of living and families "on the breadline" had resulted in increased shoplifting offences.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

The true number of people on the breadline may be much higher.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023

“Well, well!” says I. “So you didn’t hit the breadline, after all!”

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell