eking out
Example Sentences
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Hoan worked from the same slab of concrete for a decade, eking out a modest living hawking colourful bouquets.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
It may have been a narrow win, with just one of the three major indexes eking out a gain, but the Santa rally still goes into the books as a success.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026
The Hurricanes missed yet another kick in the third quarter before eking out a 10-3 lead with under two minutes to play.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
The strapped family eking out an existence on $500,000 featured in one such piece had fully-funded retirement and college plans, payments on two luxury cars, “date nights” every other week ... you get the drift.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Indeed, the process of eking out those new notes took so long that we don’t even know in which century it happened.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
