How To Use Hand to mouth In A Sentence

Now in Lebanon, he and his family are safe but existence is hand to mouth. Times, Sunday Times
Constantly haunted by images of hellhounds, loneliness, and an unreasonable wanderlust, Johnson lived hand to mouth, playing at plantations, house parties and street corners.
Lucien was living from hand to mouth, spending his money as fast as he made it, like many another journalist; nor did he give so much as a thought to those periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
For infants who did not receive a dummy, alternate soothing methods were promoted (for example, facilitation of hand to mouth action promoting self quieting behaviour).
Inevitably some of the Puffs get lost on route from hand to mouth.

Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
Poor Frog," says he, "is in hard circumstances, he has a numerous family, and lives from hand to mouth; his children don't eat a bit of good victuals from one year's end to the other, but live upon salt herring, sour curd, and borecole. History of John Bull
It's farcical situation, more so now that so many clubs are living hand to mouth.
Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.
they lived form hand to mouth
Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
It's farcical situation, more so now that so many clubs are living hand to mouth.