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How to use eke in a sentence

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My brain was so fogged, my memory so poor and my concentration so fleeting that it would take me the entire morning to eke out a paragraph.
Early in his reign the king was exiled and forced to eke out an existence wandering the land.
So, without identity documents, she had to shield her children from the authorities and eke out a living with odd cash in hand jobs.
Old widows in Mathura and Vrindavan are left to the mercy of the public to eke out an existence.
The struggle to eke out a living in the mountains seemed to be so great for them that they were willing to toss it in at the first chance.
Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments.
He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell.
Mistakes then began to creep in as the pressure rose, including Brough scuffing a gettable penalty, and the game began to slowly eke away.
Sounds great, but this technology is not designed to replace oil, merely to eke it out.
Deposit your redundancy cheque in a Best Buy high-interest easy-access savings account, and try to eke it out for as long as you can.
The little silvery streams criss-crossing the river bed are enough for them to eke out a living.
There is no money to pay the bills and Mae tops up a half-empty bottle of milk to eke it out.
As I write page after page of this I realize that I could eke a book out of this review.
The levels of poverty hit you as soon as you walk out of the airport and see people trying to eke a living out of the very earth they walk on.
He strongly admires him because he knows how tough it is to eke a living out of one of Australia's last frontiers.
The fact that we would have to eke out a miserable existence as rural farmers has not occurred to them.
Stop ruining what little enjoyment some of us poor souls can manage to eke out of the average tedious day.
I can make enough as a bandleader and itinerant musician to eke by, supplemented with the occasional website construction gig here and there.
He heads for a dirty hut in the country where he can doss down and eke out a living.
She decided to eke out a livelihood with what was once her favourite pastime, tatting.
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She had a small pension from the Government, and she worked at dressmaking to eke it out.
I had been desperately saving the ammunition, to eke out this hour of mine with her.
They keep the lock, and have a few acres of pastureland to eke out their living.
Though small, they face the strong currents and eke out a living where their larger cousin, the yellow perch, would perish.
Add eke after eke to the skep, and still seems it too small to contain all the insects.
Faults of temper she may have had, and eke narrow prejudices on sundry points.
A few guanaco and ostriches, a sprinkling of cavy, and many pampa foxes seemed to eke out an existence there.
And he had justs and turnaments, Whereto were many prest, Wherein some knights did far excell And eke surmount the rest.
Now, were I a woman, and eke a virgin, that is the man I should make my Scamander.
The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.
How he contrived to eke out subsistence was difficult to conceive.
Can you, from the brief minutes I have left, eke out my reparation?
Then shall he not go without a ducking and eke a drubbing himself!
He ate it as slowly as he could to eke out a few minutes in the heavy day.
Grenadier, turn over those sleepers, and take their shawls and linen, to eke out.
This she could not have done, but for the circumstance of there being so much in the house of their early stores, to help eke out the supplies of the moment.
His head was as round as an apple, and eke as smooth in spots.
Southgate flew into Brazil from Colombia, where, on Friday night, he saw a revealingly weak England Under-20 team eke out a dispiriting goalless draw against North Korea.
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