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vb. (present participle of eke out English)
Usage examples of "eking out".
After between ten and thirty standard years, with an average of only twenty, populations of up to several billions numbered, at best, in the hundreds of thousands, eking out subsistence livings in the new environment.
Tired of eking out a living as a merchant to the rock rats, Wanmanigee had made a deal with Humphries Space Systems to use Roebuck as a Trojan horse, drifting deep into the Belt in the hope that Lars Fuchs would intercept the ship to raid it for supplies.
Of life beyond Earth he found relatively little, most of it being confined to low mounds of algae and lichen-like forms eking out existence where life should have flourished.
Like Silenos, he had been eking out a living, mostly scrying for the least powerful mages and sinking his frustrations in drink and women, when Dionysus had come across him.
The wars and the Occupation had left a plentiful harvest of orphans behind them, and many of them gravitated to the waterfront, eking out what miserable existence they could while trying to avoid the impressment gangsĀ.
I'm reduced to living in two rooms above a tavern, eking out my existence by risking my life against the sort of violent criminals who'll happily gut a man for a few gurans or a small dose of dwa.
The few survivors of Western Europe were now huddled in the Alps, eking out a retched existence among those upland valleys.
The few survivors of Western Europe were now huddled in the Alps, eking out a wretched existence among those upland valleys.
Just a few thousand, barely eking out a living from the soil and what we have to trade our blood and dying for.
Her mother, Bena, was unmarried and had been eking out a living as a day worker in the mines.