English example sentences with "eke"

During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.
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In 2017, in Jammu, local BJP leaders launched a campaign demanding all Rohingya who live in slums and eke out their living by doing menial jobs be expelled from the city.
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Since my teenage years, I have enjoyed the Dune franchise of Frank Herbert—the literature and movies. The setting is many thousands of years into the future, as humankind has expanded throughout the galaxy. The official language of the Imperium is called Galach, a descendant of Earth's English, Russian, and other languages. Meanwhile, on the desert planet Arrakis, the Fremen eke a living as desert people. The Fremen language is a descendant of Earth's Arabic.
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Despite coronavirus lockdown measures, people who work in the informal sector are forced to leave their homes to eke out enough money to support themselves and their families.
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Many people are struggling to eke out a living.
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"Eke out" is a common phrasal verb in English.
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