Manage one's existence barely.
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Examples for "scrape along "
Examples for "scrape along "
1 Once or twice Reno thought he heard branches scrape along the hull.
2 There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow.
3 Sometimes he knocked against a chair, making it scrape along the floor.
4 Sliding it to one side, Harry heard it scrape along the tiled floor.
5 And soon I felt my shoulders scrape along a gravel bank.
1 The Bank of Mum and Dad often scrape by to fund it.
2 It is common for Haitians to scrape by with money from relatives abroad.
3 I made enough money to scrape by here and that's that.
4 Gabrielle's boyfriend was a low-expectation loser who was perfectly happy to scrape by .
5 With Gursewak's parents barred from working, the family has to scrape by on donations.
1 And despite all the wailing-guitar attitude, they only squeak by as atmospheric enhancement.
2 I subdued Fox's bark into a squeak by pulling his ears.
3 I don't know how I'd manage to squeak by without my salary from the shop.
4 An animal's habitat is defined by the range of environments that allow it to squeak by .
5 If we place twenty dogs a year, which is about what we average, we squeak by .
1 He tried his best to squeeze by it, but it was very difficult.
2 As the young men tried to squeeze by , the confederate looked up, annoyed.
3 Barely room to squeeze by this obstruction existed at the doorway.
4 Lauren stood so Nikki could squeeze by to get a view of the corpse.
5 Inside, people squeeze by each other on staircases and corridors.
1 How can you possibly know we could rub along well together?
2 Those within could hear his heavy body rub along the wall.
3 By doing this I can rub along for another ten days.
4 But I shall rub along somehow, and seven pounds a year's a consideration.
5 Perhaps that is why we seem to rub along so well,' he added awkwardly.
1 I'm a widow with twelve sons; and 'tis --hard to scratch along .
2 And if one of those two fail, how's the other to scratch along ?
3 Stephenson was a healthy scratch along with D Taylor Chorney and C Paul Carey.
4 The flu didn't get me, but a little scratch along the leg almost did.
5 It had a long scratch along one side.
6 I am big enough and ugly enough to scratch along somehow, and I will not starve.
7 Peppo had to scratch along just any way.
8 Three black chickens scratch along a filthy gutter of blue-grey water next to the public latrine.
9 C Micheal Haley came off injured reserve but was a healthy scratch along with D Tim Heed.
10 We now-topass into the present tense-wrapthis pattern round the tube and scratch along its edges.
11 He played in place of D Brandon Manning, who was a healthy scratch along with C R.J. Umberger.
12 Mrs. de Warrenne heard it scratch along the floor, grate on a nail, and crush through the snake.
13 Only a scratch along my check.
14 I have friends in Paris where I can manage to scratch along for a bit till things have blown over.
15 He sent a dagger twirling with deadly efficiency-andshe couldn't move fast enough to avoid the thin scratch along her cheekbone.
16 Eligible to return after serving a three-game suspension, Los Angeles D Tom Gilbert was a healthy scratch along with C Jordan Nolan.
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