Examples of 'eking out' in a sentence
Meaning of "eking out"
eking out: To barely manage to make a living or obtain necessities
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- present participle of eke out
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Eking out a meagre existence by collecting cans.
Poor people eking out a living by hand.
Eking out a few extra seconds.
I had strong gases eking out of my butt that day.
Eking out an existence in this new world is hard.
I had some gases eking out of my butt that day.
He says education is for life and not merely for eking out a livelihood.
You are eking out your salary and food.
Nailed him exactly, especially the eking out part.
Millions of these refugees are eking out a very miserable existence in neighbouring countries.
Eking out a living in fairs and at street corners wherever they could find a crowd.
Humanity reduced to a few survivors eking out a living in polar refugees.
Eking out the primary energy base continues to receive a high priority in Community energy policy.
Many refugees had difficulty eking out a living and had to rely on charity.
All his life he had been poverty stricken, just eking out a living.
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When Chaz was eking out a gap there was nothing I could do to win.
During that time, we were just eking out a living.
Can you see me eking out my days listening to The Archers You will survive.
We were maybe stealing dinosaur eggs, maybe just eking out an existence.
Um … my ovaries are eking out into my fallopian tubes, and they are wrapped around.
Life is not only about eating, sleeping and eking out a living.
These people were eking out a living by hunting, fishing and selling squirrel skins.
Much of the population here works as carboneros, eking out a living making charcoal.
Eking out crops from the rocky soil was difficult, and the kibbutz was poor.
And so that means lots of people are eking out a living in the bottom layer.
Eking out a few extra seconds . Wondering why they bother.
Single-celled organisms like bacteria eking out an existence in the most hostile of environments.
While eking out a meager living, I sought connections for employment with a new master.
Well, let us just say it 's hard eking out a living fixing refrigerators and so forth.
Eking out a living, however, was never easy.
Are there descendants of those early life forms eking out an existence below the surface?
One day, they are eking out a living in some godforsaken colonies on the Cardassian border.
Ten years later, Sergius is reduced to poverty, eking out a living as a Hollywood extra.
I had strong gases eking out of my butt that day. Then I ate some rotten berries.
Solzhenitsyn was just another writer in Russia, barely eking out a middle class existence.
Of quiet despair . Eking out an otherwise disappointing existence.
This debut novel follows a Taiwanese immigrant family eking out a life near Anchorage, Alaska.
Million Palestinians eking out a living on the remaining 55 per cent of land.
Why 's that? Well, let us just say it 's hard eking out a living.
Nomadic Berbers still live here, eking out traditional lives in difficult conditions.
Eking out a meagre existence by collecting cans… - He's a fake.
How the Potter sisters are eking out their meagre living?
I had strong gases eking out of my butt that day. Why are you following me?
Game 1 of the Finals went into two overtimes, with the Stags eking out a 4-point triumph.
One day, they are eking out a living.
Anabel is a working-class woman, eking out a living in a low-paid job.
Nosh is a tech-savvy pyromaniac and bomb-maker, eking out a living in a scrapyard far from the resistance.
Taiwan only did marginally better, eking out growth of 1.5 per cent in real terms.
