Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singulareke out)
Usage examples of "ekes out".
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.
An effete snob who ekes out a comfortable living as the President's son-in-law, and perfects his reflexes with endless contests of cosmic pool, becomes the most important element in a delicate game of interspatial espionage—.
A man ekes out an existence only if he can do other things as well.
For the second game, Maledicta lets Malefica handle all the hard shots, and ekes out a narrow victory.