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vb. (en-third-person singularmake a living)
Usage examples of "makes a living".
My landlord, Henry Pitts, is a former commercial baker who makes a living now, at the age of eighty-one, by devising obnoxiously difficult crossword puzzles, which he likes to try out on me.
He makes a living, I believe, lecturing to his fellow cultists about 'What I Found on the Moon.
He makes a living, I believe, lecturing to his fellow cultists about ‘.
Our profession has never really been socially acceptable, and anyone who makes a living at it has had to put up with physical and mental abuse as a norm, not as an exception.
He alone, coupling and connecting in some wonderful fashion the spiritual and corporeal natures, the one to command, the other to obey, makes a living being.
Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guys body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation.