daily bread

Example Sentences

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Turkel’s book stressed that work was a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Leo cited in particular "Ukraine, Gaza, Haiti, Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic, Yemen and South Sudan", among other countries "where poverty has become the daily bread".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

And that was a shock to him, because while he occasionally saw his mom light up, “it wasn’t our daily bread at all.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

“A large slice of the population in the Roman Empire were people who sweated for their daily bread but were also anxious to raise their social status,” the park’s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said.

From Reuters • Aug. 6, 2022

Throughout those days, while we scratched and haggled for our daily bread, I had a photograph of President Eisenhower for company in my kitchen house.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver