Manage one's existence barely.
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Examples for "scrape along"
Examples for "scrape along"
1Once or twice Reno thought he heard branches scrape along the hull.
2There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow.
3Sometimes he knocked against a chair, making it scrape along the floor.
4Sliding it to one side, Harry heard it scrape along the tiled floor.
5And soon I felt my shoulders scrape along a gravel bank.
1The Bank of Mum and Dad often scrape by to fund it.
2It is common for Haitians to scrape by with money from relatives abroad.
3I made enough money to scrape by here and that's that.
4Gabrielle's boyfriend was a low-expectation loser who was perfectly happy to scrape by.
5With Gursewak's parents barred from working, the family has to scrape by on donations.
1I'm a widow with twelve sons; and 'tis --hard to scratch along.
2And if one of those two fail, how's the other to scratch along?
3Stephenson was a healthy scratch along with D Taylor Chorney and C Paul Carey.
4The flu didn't get me, but a little scratch along the leg almost did.
5It had a long scratch along one side.
1And despite all the wailing-guitar attitude, they only squeak by as atmospheric enhancement.
2I subdued Fox's bark into a squeak by pulling his ears.
3I don't know how I'd manage to squeak by without my salary from the shop.
4An animal's habitat is defined by the range of environments that allow it to squeak by.
5If we place twenty dogs a year, which is about what we average, we squeak by.
1How can you possibly know we could rub along well together?
2Those within could hear his heavy body rub along the wall.
3By doing this I can rub along for another ten days.
4But I shall rub along somehow, and seven pounds a year's a consideration.
5Perhaps that is why we seem to rub along so well,' he added awkwardly.
1He tried his best to squeeze by it, but it was very difficult.
2As the young men tried to squeeze by, the confederate looked up, annoyed.
3Barely room to squeeze by this obstruction existed at the doorway.
4Lauren stood so Nikki could squeeze by to get a view of the corpse.
5Inside, people squeeze by each other on staircases and corridors.
6I shook my head and turned to allow her and Hayes to squeeze by.
7He had managed to widen the narrowest squeeze by chipping the rock with his chisel.
8The stake-out car at the end of the road backed up to let him squeeze by.
9I meant to be very early, people do look so cross when you squeeze by them.
10She has to squeeze by Kent.
11The girl turned in the aisle to let him squeeze by but otherwise did not seem to notice him.
12Bodman told reporters he believed the incident was an anomaly, most likely caused by a short squeeze by professional traders.
13I parked as close to the apartment building as possible, leaving barely enough room for a car to squeeze by me.
14I offered Joyce the bunch, which she took with a smile, giving my hand a little squeeze by way of gratitude.
15U.S.-led attempts to encourage banks to end a liquidity squeeze by lending to each other again have been met with market scepticism.
16They were now beginning to put on a squeeze by threatening to call a congressman-and nothing chills blood faster in the military.
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