Examples of 'out a living' in a sentence

Meaning of "out a living"

The phrase 'out a living' is typically used to describe the act of earning enough money or sustaining oneself financially. It implies making a sufficient income to cover basic expenses and support oneself or one's family

How to use "out a living" in a sentence

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Not if you make out a living will.
Economic hardships make it difficult to eke out a living.
Poor people eking out a living by hand.
I have just been so busy trying to scratch out a living.
Others eke out a living on the street.
Got to do a little leatherwork to piece out a living.
Somehow they eke out a living together.
We are one of the few that are still scrapping out a living.
I can not eke out a living for myself.
A man has a right to scratch out a living.
So she eked out a living as best she could.
She can barely scrape out a living.
He eked out a living by his wife running a small used clothing store.
I have to slog hard to eke out a living.
She and her husband eke out a living by providing services to tourists.

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They are just trying to scratch out a living.
How to lay out a living room.
Allowing the smallest to scratch out a living.
He ekes out a living.
You are just trying to scrape out a living.
You dug out a living and kicking fetus from my stomach and killed it.
We had tough upbringings to etch out a living in.
Eking out a living in fairs and at street corners wherever they could find a crowd.
So the families barely eeked out a living.
Some students even scratched out a living in the mines to pay their debts.
The artist was barely able to eke out a living.
But he struggled to make out a living for him and his family.
They were poor and had to work hard to eke out a living.
They lived a life griding out a living in tough conditions.
He is talkative and uses the opportunities around him to eke out a living.
Battled the jungle to carve out a living for themselves.
Black songwriters had mostly limited horizons and could only eke out a living.
I will scrape out a living.
A comfort zone is a zone where you do something which allows you to eke out a living.
Kangaroos are herbivorous and scratch out a living feeding on grasses.
A young boy named Joaquín Guzmán is busy trying to scratch out a living.
But it is not easy to carve out a living outside of the city.
Another had her house burned down just when she was starting to eke out a living.
The three siblings try to eke out a living by doing odd jobs.
Northern Canada is a harsh environment in which to eke out a living.
Many refugees had difficulty eking out a living and had to rely on charity.
He eked out a living by drawing newspaper cartoons and helping Anton van Wouw with commissions.
It gets harder to scratch out a living.
Ava Jones has eked out a living the only way she knows how.
It is not easy to eke out a living.
But I eke out a living as a small civil servant in the Brazilian embassy in Paris.
We will somehow eke out a living.
You eke out a living as free men, and women.
If not we would all be scratching out a living in the dirt.
A lawyer can eke out a living doing temp legal research, but there's a gap in his life.

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