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Makes out barely
Answer for the clue "Makes out barely ", 4 letters:
ekes
Alternative clues for the word ekes
- __ out a living (barely manages)
- __ out a victory (barely wins)
- Meagerly manages (with ''out'')
- _____ out (supplements)
- Barely makes (with ''out'')
- ___ out (gets by)
- Makes do ( with ''out'')
- ___ out a living (barely manages to survive)
- Endures hardship to make, with "out"
- Supports laboriously, with "out"
Usage examples of ekes.
He was a writer of the sort that barely ekes out a living, these days at least, by selling blood and doing novelizations of television series.
He ekes out a living as a witch, because he refuses to let his grandson support him.
Sumeru -- the center of the universe -- and Harney Peak, also the center of the universe, oddly enough -- both some six hundred klicks southeast of the four San Francisco Peaks where the Hopi-Eskimo culture there ekes out a living on the cold ridges and fern clefts, also certain that their peaks bound the center of the universe.