| He eked out his drinking water until Tuesday morning, waiting in the faint hope of being found. |
| Serfs produced their own wine, ate wild game, raised pigs and chickens, and eked out seasonal vegetables. |
| Those who had eked out a marginal existence by squatting on the commons were evicted. |
| It would probably be hydroponic lettuce garnished with a few puny tomatoes that I have eked out of the bulldust in my backyard. |
| He eked out a precarious living chiefly by writing short stories, some of which won praise but none of which earned him significant money. |
| The trio had eked out a meager living through acts of charity, upholding their righteous values, even in a foreign land. |
