make ends meet
Example Sentences
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“For a day or two, she’d give us the silent treatment, and then we’d all fall back into the form of a life trying to make ends meet,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
Running fast was just one piece of the jigsaw for Coventry-born Fearon, as he was trying to make ends meet, juggling between work and bobsleigh training.
From BBC
“We heard reports of officers sleeping in their cars at airports to save money on gas, selling their blood and plasma and taking on second jobs to make ends meet,” she said, adding that some are still recovering from the financial impact.
From Los Angeles Times
But more than 2,000 job applications later he is still hunting, trying to make ends meet with jobs in package delivery and landscaping.
From BBC
Reena Sewraz, Which? retail editor, said Tesco's Clubcard savings can be "really significant, which is why access to them matters so much for shoppers trying to make ends meet".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
