eke in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

eke in the PONS Dictionary

eke Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to eke out one's salary
estirar su sueldo inf
to eke out a living
ganarse la vida a duras penas
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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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After his release he used pseudonyms to eke out a living in the film industry as a screenwriter, assistant, and critic.
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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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These exhibitions gave him widespread recognition and enabled him to eke out a living through the selling of prints.
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Multitudes chose to emigrate rather than try to eke out a meager living, especially from 1892 to 1921.
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He is talkative and uses the opportunities around him to eke out a living.
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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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Eke is considered the first and biggest of these markets.
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Reduced to poverty, he ekes out a living by playing whist for money.
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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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