2 Sentences With "ekes out an existence"

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His farm is known as "The Old Fisher Place" although "Fisher" is the most common name in the locality. Freddy - Walt's best friend and immediate neighbour. Freddy is a jack-of-all-trades with a distinct stutter who ekes out an existence as a farmer, auctioneer and middleman. His farm is known as "The Old Haddock Place", after his mother's family.
On the isolated island of Ham, a tiny community ekes out an existence from the land, assisted by semi- intelligent pig-like creatures known as 'motos' that are unique to the island. The community lives according to the severely enforced religion of the country known as "Ing" (i.e. England) whereby men and women lead separate lives but share childcare in accordance with the dictates of the Book of Dave, which is regarded as a sacred text, but which is evidently the book written by Dave Rudman and buried in a Hampstead garden some two thousand years earlier. A young male 'Hamster', Symun Devush, explores a forbidden area of the island and emerges claiming that he has discovered a second Book of Dave that repudiates the tenets of the first.