How To Use Eke out In A Sentence

  • To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.
  • Whether you're planning to flash your Florins in the salsa bars of Aruba, bum around the Andes on your Bolivianos, or simply eke out your Euros on the French Riviera, chances are you'll be needing some holiday money in the coming months.
  • They had to eke out a living on a tiny income.
  • Fund manager Perpetual said it is willing to share limited financial information with private-equity group KKR to perhaps eke out a higher bid. What's News
  • With Jersey Shore, MTV decided to do its own line as a way to eke out more revenue from the thriving franchise. Ghosts Aren't Nearly as Frightening as These Characters
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • Families eke out an existence in tiny shelters made from rubbish or threadbare canvas sheets. The Sun
  • He said three types of life forms are found in permafrost: active ones that eke out a living, forms in suspended anabiosis until things get better, and the ones that simply gave up and died.
  • Most Asian markets also slipped, although a weaker yen helped Tokyo eke out a gain. What's News
  • Nets brim over with dead fish, blemishing the view of a vast reservoir in China's eastern province of Jiangsu where hundreds of peasants already struggle to eke out a living.
  • Early in his reign the king was exiled and forced to eke out an existence wandering the land.
  • Families eke out an existence in tiny shelters made from rubbish or threadbare canvas sheets. The Sun
  • But I restrained the impulse, for it is as well to eke out such tokens of our goodwill as we possess.
  • Men had to be relocated in single sex hostels whilst women were left to eke out an existence for themselves and their children on barren lands.
  • Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers.
  • Moreover, before withdrawing from Maikop, the Russians had so thoroughly destroyed the oil fields and supplies and equipment, right down to the small tools in the workshops, that by January 1943 the Germans were able to eke out no more than seventy barrels per day there. The Prize
  • They had to eke out a living on a tiny income.
  • Learning how to eke out the budget and eat well without labouring over a hot wok becomes crucial once you are fending for yourself. Times, Sunday Times
  • But I restrained the impulse, for it is as well to eke out such tokens of our goodwill as we possess.
  • The elderly eke out a living on pensions averaging from $ 50 to $ 75 monthly.
  • Here they eke out a hand-to-mouth existence in makeshift settlements around the water desalination plants that the government has set up. Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction
  • It was a system designed to eke out 1-0 wins. Times, Sunday Times
  • He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell.
  • Most of his subjects eke out an existence on less than 50p a day. Times, Sunday Times
  • They eke out a miserable existence in cardboard shacks.
  • They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.
  • She decided to eke out a livelihood with what was once her favourite pastime, tatting.
  • USATODAY. com - Spain subs impress early, eke out 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia USATODAY.com - Spain subs impress early, eke out 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia
  • The little silvery streams criss-crossing the river bed are enough for them to eke out a living.
  • She managed to eke out her student loan till the end of the year.
  • Most of his subjects eke out an existence on less than 50p a day. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Professor Moeen Cheema notes, these young, part-time and often poor lawyer-foot soldiers that made up the bulk of Pakistan's legal establishment, "barely eke out a decent living from legal practice ... and enrollment in the bar is a part-time venture for them that provides a status of respectability rather than living wages. Ehsan Zaffar: Amid a Turbulent Year, a Rare Sign of Hope in Pakistan
  • She managed to eke out her student loan till the end of the year.
  • They had to eke out a living on a tiny income.
  • She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.
  • How did Mum manage to eke out the food when we were kids?
  • The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
  • We must try to eke out our water supply.
  • In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile. Times, Sunday Times
  • My brain was so fogged, my memory so poor and my concentration so fleeting that it would take me the entire morning to eke out a paragraph.
  • Hundreds eke out a living, toiling hard throughout the night.
  • Once you learn to isolate your triceps, you can call on them during a compound movement to help you eke out a few extra reps of chest or shoulder presses.
  • He turned a blind eye to the dirt-farming Andersen family trying to eke out a living on a half-section of ground on his east boundary. Mistletoe and Holly
  • She had occasionally given him a five-dollar bill to eke out what he termed his miserable pay, and now whenever he called he didn't spare hints that he was out of pocket, and that a further gift would be acceptable. The Cash Boy
  • Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments.
  • Massachusetts's farming families relied on their labor to eke out a bare competency and secure a freehold, while planters exploited the labor of their slaves and engrossed lands.
  • He heads for a dirty hut in the country where he can doss down and eke out a living.
  • To eke out the ship-rations provisions must be had, and in this neighbors helped -- the wife of the farmer he worked for presented him with a cheese, she called it a kebbuck, and his father's master insisted on his accepting two stone of meal, part of which was baked into oatcakes. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
  • Spain subs impress early, eke out 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia USATODAY.com - Spain subs impress early, eke out 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia
  • Make no mistake, Feingold's motion to censure is not a foolish nuisance interrupting your busy lawmaking schedules, not an unnecessary distraction from the great work of appealing as unspecifically as possible to enough disgruntled Republicans that we can eke out a tarnished and compromised numerical victory in November. Frank Dwyer: Senators: Stand with Feingold
  • The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
  • He went with a split front trio here, leaving Jermaine Beckford on the bench until the last few minutes, and adjusted his approach at half-time to eke out more from Rodwell's presence. Jack Rodwell's attacking intent rouses Everton against Chelsea | David Pleat
  • They eke out victories now, or inexplicably stumble like they did Tuesday night against 5 - 16 Sacramento.
  • In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kick-Ass took a tumble in its second week after managing to eke out a photo-finish win last week (after further review of the adjusted totals). April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a system designed to eke out 1-0 wins. Times, Sunday Times
  • And restricting ourselves only to PIE and internal reconstruction of PIE, I've also already stated that a deictic postclitic with added support from real-world languages which do the same sufficiently explains the marked nominative in PIE without contorting the entire declensional system to eke out an ergative suffix so that you can fantasize about Hurrian links. Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
  • In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're just beginning to eke out every wiggle on the seismogram and what it's telling us," says Wallace. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
  • Stop ruining what little enjoyment some of us poor souls can manage to eke out of the average tedious day.
  • But rather than tell that story, dig in, and fight like a true leader would, Obama has chosen to hire corporate-friendly advisors, compromise on the most crucial substance, and attempt to eke out weak, symbolic, half-victories gift-wrapped in flowery oratory and spin. Josh Silver: Comcastrophe: Comcast/NBC Merger Approved
  • They eke out a precarious existence .
  • Newly divorced and up for tenure at Washington State University, she was faced with trying to eke out a living for herself and her two daughters on an assistant professor's salary.
  • The fact that we would have to eke out a miserable existence as rural farmers has not occurred to them.
  • The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
  • Their most ardent devotees had arrived three hours before the band took the stage, and outside, the more adventurous ticketless followers attempted to eke out treetop vantage points, to no avail.
  • After trailing the champions throughout, it seemed that all Cork needed was to get their snouts in front, but after drawing up alongside their opponents as the game swung in to the final five minutes Cork couldn't eke out a lead.
  • From generation to generation, they tilled land for landlord only to eke out a bare subsistence. People who associated with them as friends were likewise honest impoverished peasants.
  • It also provided them with various common rights and established customs and practices which they used to structure their day, to appropriate goods and to eke out a living.

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy