eke out a living
eke out an existence

There cannot be many places where it is harder to eke out a living.

Despite public and private assistance, they are struggling to eke out a living.

We were barely able to eke out a living, and our few real jobs didn't last long.

You have to feel sorry for poor politicians trying to eke out a living in these tough economic times.

People still eke out a living, but it's a hard life and the communities look it."

An economic depression is driving poor farmers into the city to eke out a living.

"We can eke out a living but I had hoped to build better than that.

She ekes out a living as a singer in a local club where the pianist is black.

Expenses are high, and I've got to keep moving to eke out a living."

And I always wondered how that poor beast managed to eke out a living.

This is the area where the first white settlers established tents and tried to eke out a living.

He is talkative and uses the opportunities around him to eke out a living.

The play portrays the tension between three people (two black - one white) trying to eke out a living.

At the other are street artists who eke out a living, one 10-euro painting at a time.

The laborers, however, contend that they are not a nuisance, just men trying to eke out a living.

However, her career evolved slowly and she struggled constantly to eke out a living.

In Chicago, Frederick and his father had to eke out a living.

"I'm just beginning to understand the economic swap I've made to be able to do something I love and eke out a living."

She makes appearances on television programs to eke out a living for her troublemaker father and brother.

Reduced to poverty, he ekes out a living by playing whist for money.

I've put the best of my efforts into our small holdings, and we only manage to eke out a living."

They decide to sell tissue and cells of their body for payment in order to eke out a living.

At such times, they would eke out a living by delivering lectures on heads."

Black songwriters had mostly limited horizons and could only eke out a living.

No longer prosperous, they managed to eke out a living through the 19th century.

Some companies eke out an existence by charging rent for office space in their buildings.

There, with friends from the Resistance, he had sought to eke out an existence as a simple farmer.

Large families eke out an existence for six days a week on a few loaves and margarine.

He ekes out an existence by ruining the very souls he'd tried to save.

"They try to eke out an existence but it's tough, very tough."

Others are forced to eke out an existence on the outside, where fearful gangs battle for dominance.

But some farmers who eke out an existence along the frontier say the contras have driven them from their land.

"Karachi is now a conglomeration of communities who have come into the city to eke out an existence."

I wouldn't want to have to eke out an existence on the amount of vegetation that grows there."

They eke out an existence in cardboard and tin shacks amongst the graves.

The few tenants who remain with him only manage to eke out an existence, instead of making the land really productive."

It can make your own life feel as empty and attenuated as those of the people trying to eke out an existence on the screen.

But for writers trying to eke out an existence as a blogger for a business, pay is typically much more modest.

To finish the planting scheme, there are tiny species which can eke out an existence in a teaspoonful of soil.

"They're wily and could eke out an existence in the middle of Los Angeles," he said.

About 7.5 million people squeeze onto the increasingly arid hills of Rwanda, trying to eke out an existence on depleted soil.

The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.

But the real islanders, not the 4,000 residents who show up in warm weather, take perverse pride in being able to eke out an existence.

The members of this loosely knit pack eke out an existence by begging and doing occasional odd jobs for storekeepers.

But many cannot afford papers, and so barely eke out an existence because they are taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers and landlords.

All are selling off cherished possessions to eke out an existence, and their "surplus living space" is being occupied by Communist Party favorites.

It is an account of a poor peasant family who eke out an existence within a brutal, exploitative, and feudal system of labor.

His subjects-people living in and around a Russia in transition-try in their individual ways to eke out an existence.

Freddy is a jack-of-all-trades with a distinct stutter who ekes out an existence as a farmer, auctioneer and middleman.

Drought, famine, and earthquakes become the norm and Patty and her two friends barely manage to eke out an existence.