to-eke

One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.

Given the circumstances, what sort of arguments can the French right put forward to eke out a victory?

Personally, I've spent five years at SayNow trying to eke more out of the digit-based phone system too.

It would be like him to trot after me, his navy blazer flapping, just to eke the truth out of me.

It would often be better, she thinks, not to try so hard to eke out a few more hours or weeks but to concentrate on quality of life.

The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.

at worst, they are a sign that employees have spent too much time trying to eke out improvements in the wrong areas.

They forged a sense of commonality in their collective effort to eke out a living and to mould a feeling of community and identity.

The empress dowager managed to eke out her life of souvenir in her palace.

He asked about the present condition and I tried to eke out the little knowledge I had collected.

The novel ends with a broken Xiangzi picking up cigarette-ends to eke out a miserable living.

I set out one afternoon to go a-fishing to Fair Haven, through the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables.

North Koreans certainly struggle to eke out a living, but they are not starving.

For the three months ended March 31, the company managed to eke a profit of EUR21 million, but that was largely due to lower costs.

The nation should still manage to eke out a surplus this year.

There are many humble dwellings scattered about the valley and most all of the inhabitants have to struggle in order to eke out a living.

They had to eke out a living on a tiny income.

However, you end up spending a lot of money to try to eke out acceptable performance.

To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2, 000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.

Amid regular power cuts, Cyprus will be lucky to eke out any economic growth this year.

Chinese producers are focusing on ways to eke out more profits.

Japan's economy has been ailing for 20 years, barely managing to eke out weak growth between slowdowns.

But he harbors doubts about stocks' ability to eke out gains past 2010.

to eke out an income with a second job

the crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water