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breadline

[ UK /bɹˈɛdla‍ɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a queue of people waiting for free food

How To Use breadline In A Sentence

  • If you listen to what the Rowntree Foundation calls the breadline you might be amazed at what they consider the bare necessities. Army Rumour Service
  • People on the breadline are going to be left out in the cold.
  • We lived on the breadline to get our son through college.
  • He was also a child of the untamed and untilled outback where people lived quite literally on the breadline.
  • One in three children still live below the breadline - despite all the government's pledges to end child poverty.
  • Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
  • We lived on the breadline to get our son through college.
  • The piece opens by acknowledging the popularity of breadlines among bourgeois urban explorers, and their status as sociological and literary conventions.
  • His multi-figure bronze casts portray a breadline, an Appalachian farm couple and a man listening to one of FDR's fireside chats.
  • Or perhaps they're the impoverished hill farmers that live hard, breadline lives in isolated, public service-free zones of desolation.
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