eke in the PONS Dictionary

eke Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to eke out a living
едва свързвам двата края

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Several boroughs had by that time become insolvent, and some had recourse to their member of parliament to eke out their revenues.
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These exhibitions gave him widespread recognition and enabled him to eke out a living through the selling of prints.
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Still, he managed to eke out a victory by fewer than 1000 votes.
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Eke is considered the first and biggest of these markets.
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Eke also competed in the 10000 metres event and qualified for the final, where he did not participate.
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That classification usually means that a person ekes out a precarious livelihood in the urban informal sector or as a poorly paid domestic.
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Reduced to poverty, he ekes out a living by playing whist for money.
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Most of the population ekes out a living as subsistence farmers, living with problems of climate, soil erosion, and rudimentary technology.
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They were forced to eke out their means by all kinds of artistic drudgery.
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Mankind ekes out a living in a few handfuls of settlements, connected by a network of massive armored trains.
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