What is "made a living"

Usage examples of "made a living".

He'd finally realized, very nearly too late, that his life of petty crime hurt a lot more people than just the rich, obnoxious tourists he'd made a living ripping off.

Then he made a living for a while on the illegal bare-knuckle circuit.

Moreover, he had practised gardening in his own plot for so many years that, on an emergency, he might have made a living by that calling.

Although smugglers sometimes made a living from selling andris and glitterstim and ryll offworld, she couldn't just step into the local mercantile and order a container for herself But she hoped there might be some people in the docking bays who had a tiny bit of skim they could sell from their cargo .

Sha'lazzi had made a living, indeed an art, out of telling anybody anything he wanted to know-for a price-and so good was he at his craft, so connected to every pulse beat of Calimport's ruling families and street thugs alike, that he had made himself too valuable to the often-warring guilds to be murdered.

Here was a scavenger, a man who made a living off the weakness of others, who had yet grown so insolent with success that he dared to murder-or have murdered on his behalf-those who crossed him.

Preacher's real name was Tiller Long, and he made a living caring for the lawns of the white people on the other side of town.

To various degrees, each made a living acting as a consultant to one of the brand new industries, helping their corporate officers identify trends that would survive another six or seven months.

Ventidius is Publius Ventidius Bassus, who in early life had been a poor man who made a living renting mules and carriages.

Although there is no record of Jim's activities in California, it is safe to assume that he made a living in his usual manner--robbery.