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How to use earn a living in a sentence

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In recent years, I've been very involved in conflict resolution to solve community problems, which is currently how I earn a living.
Teaching offered both social respectability and an opportunity to earn a living.
Would you be willing to pay a fourth of a penny more for your chalupa if it meant that farm workers could earn a living wage?
She also said that she couldn't live in Australia to be close to her old and ailing mother because she couldn't earn a living there.
He emigrated to England at a young age, to work on farms with other members of his family to earn a living.
Art is a strong reaffirmation that people, wherever they are in the world and whatever they do to earn a living, share the same basic emotions.
For the last 11 years I've attempted to earn a living from my skills as a carver and sculptor.
For him, the opportunity for blacks to earn a living and acquire property was more important than the right to vote.
William spent many years as a philomath while continuing to earn a living teaching and playing music.
Unless you tow a boat or trailer, or need an SUV to earn a living, is an eight-cylinder engine worth the extra cost of taking out a large loan?
He stuck labels on jars to earn a living and slept in a rat-infested warehouse in the slums of London.
The crux of the matter is whether the future holds hope for people who prefer to stay at home instead of going abroad to earn a living.
If Darryl Berry played any other sport but golf, he would probably earn a living from it.
Farming does not pay and many have had to look beyond the fields for additional ventures to earn a living wage.
When the worse gets to the worst, a number of people end up indulging in various societal vices to earn a living.
The professional dog walker is giving a service and has the right to earn a living.
Many earn a living by selling sheep and goats for meat, dung for fertilizer, and wool.
Finally, to earn a living, she plays nanny to Ray, an eight-year-old with emotional issues, who dresses and acts like a fussy old battleaxe.
Indeed, there is a seemingly endless list of other ways they could earn a living.
To earn a living he became the art master in a school for young ladies in Liverpool.
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Oh, hang it all, dork, I'll go into some respectable business and earn a living.
Granny must put him in long pants, and then he will trot out to earn a living for himself.
Had she been compelled to earn a living she would have made a successful teacher or manipulator of men.
He is going to work, to be a menial, to earn a living by honest means?
In 1849, he moved to Farnham, another small town, believing it would be easier to earn a living as a lumberman.
This worried Uncle Henry a good deal, for without the farm he would have no way to earn a living.
With over 65 percent of the population relying on pastoralism to earn a living, the huge livestock deaths could have long-term negative consequences.
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