One of these gentlefolk was an 80-year-old woman, dying of cancer while barely subsisting on the declining returns from her failing investments.

Museum workers have long been regarded as secular saints in Russia, devoted to their work even as they barely subsist on meager wages.

With the whole world starving and all those People's States barely subsisting on handouts from this country-where do you see any danger of war?

More than half of Haiti's population is unemployed or barely subsisting on less than a dollar a day, and the manufacturers say the situation is desperate.

Most of that time he had been cold and hungry, barely subsisting on the food he could find.

Vendors are faced with so much regulation and harassment that they can barely subsist.

They were rootless, barely subsisting.

Here and there were a few bedraggled thorn bushes, barely subsisting in this dry, sere place.

As the family continues to barely subsist, the "outside" seems to be creeping closer to the isolated families of the Appalachian region.

She has accomplished what no contemporary writer has even attempted-to be that 'nobody' who barely subsists on her essential labors.