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"scrape by" Definitions
  1. to manage to live on the money you have, but with difficulty
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122 Sentences With "scrape by"

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They're not welcome here, and it's difficult to scrape by.
"We had to kind of scrape by until then," she said.
Most slum dwellers scrape by on informal work in their neighbourhoods.
Now that buyers returned, he earns enough again to scrape by.
The people here are trying to scrape by in a difficult world.
Those who remain scrape by on makeshift systems for electricity and water.
Left unsaid is the corollary: without reform, Turkey will merely scrape by.
Friends with good jobs, doctors and managers, now scrape by, he said.
With Gursewak's parents barred from working, the family has to scrape by on donations.
And a new crop of interns are starting to scrape by in the city.
But until that time, authors will have to do whatever they can to scrape by.
Today, they scrape by and live in transient shelters paid for by members like Ravago.
Four girls try to scrape by in the late 80s by running their own paper route.
I thought I would barely scrape by, as my father and grandfather before me had done.
"I'm not here just to scrape by or drift," Conte told reporters at his official residence.
Its coffers are not overflowing, however, and a majority of citizens and neighborhoods barely scrape by.
Twelve million Americans take out high-interest, short-term "payday loans" to scrape by each year.
One question is how well Sears and Kmart will manage to scrape by in the forthcoming holiday season.
Ordinary North Korean citizens scrape by on cheap solar panels imported from China for their daily energy needs.
But if you've got the will to party, you'll sure as hell find a way to scrape by.
Meanwhile, radio services like Pandora hardly scrape by on the meager ad rates after they pay out royalties.
This novel is a densely populated village where everyone leans on one another in order to scrape by.
In some US cities, a family will barely scrape by while earning $100,1003 per year, according to GOBankingRates.
By his own admission, Adams was never a great student at school, simply doing enough to scrape by.
Cory Booker and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, scrape by the margin of error, leading Trump by 219 percentage points each.
They were written before the sharing economy made it so that employees have to scrape by with multiple jobs.
Some civilians have to go so that I can try to scrape by with a "win" on this map.
Currently, some Kosovo clubs have wealthy backers bankrolling their existence, while others scrape by with the help of local business.
It's not like 'Oh, we're not really sure about this, maybe it's just hard and a struggle to scrape by.
"I'm not here just to scrape by, or drift," Conte told a packed news conference at the prime minister's residence.
Far more common are competitors who just scrape by as full-time players, or who have to juggle second careers.
In the game, you die, you barely scrape by as a collaborator, or you develop a sense of revolutionary solidarity.
Forced to compete in the free market, many of the women had to take jobs teaching singing to scrape by.
Meanwhile, its beleaguered cousin site barely managed to scrape by the next few years, hopping from one controversy to the next.
One out of every five senior citizens is trying to scrape by on an average income of just $8,85033 a year.
Of course, Republicans haven't really been impressive either, as they scrape by in what were supposed to be solid GOP districts.
The store, which has now reopened, is trying to scrape by with the sales of paraphernalia like bongs and rolling papers.
I like the idea of being a character in a difficult, violent world who is just trying to scrape by to survive.
The Bellegueles scrape by on welfare checks and "credit" to pay for the most basic of necessities, which the family often cannot afford.
For already-struggling communities - which often scrape by on subsistence ranching and gasoline smuggling - the needs of returning Wayuu are hard to meet.
The problem is blamed on the proliferation of online gambling and the low payouts for players attempting to scrape by playing smaller tournaments.
This pandemic is already having a disastrous impact on the homeless, undocumented migrants and others who scrape by on the margins of society.
If you do the math and would be barely able to scrape by, consider holding off until you're in a more stable financial position.
According to a recent analysis by the White House Council of Economic Advisors, these "unbanked" families scrape by earning $6900,2628 a year on average.
So I learned about economics, not just in college, but in living in a family that didn't have money that had to scrape by.
Home-based business are more able than most to absorb losses, and to scrape by on wages that would send most other businesses under.
This has caused the value of the country's currency, the rial, to plummet, and made it ever more difficult for ordinary Iranians to scrape by.
He recalls one elderly couple who took out a reverse mortgage in 2007 after depleting their savings and trying to scrape by on Social Security.
Chip and Joanna had their first four children as newlyweds struggling to scrape by while starting what Joanna called their "rag-tag" house-flipping company.
Ms. Tierney has watched Crown Heights change from a neighborhood in which longtime residents could just scrape by to one they're being pushed out of.
The shake-out would only abate once the maths problems get easy enough that less power is needed, enabling the remaining miners to scrape by.
But if you do the math and would be barely able to scrape by, consider holding off until you're in a more stable financial position.
I did what I needed to scrape by, and I managed to follow some basic rules to make sure my credit remained in good shape.
"Work It," an early highlight, is a hustle-harder anthem for creatives whose best hope of success is working 24/7 just to scrape by.
It's about bantering, sarcastic characters that often do the dumbest things possible, but manage to scrape by because ultimately, their hearts are in the right place.
Working longer hours or tapping into savings is helping some scrape by, but even so, 40% of households in Tajikistan say they cannot afford enough food.
People have sex, they drink too much, they lose their money, they take jobs cleaning and teaching and tending bar and selling drugs to scrape by.
Fast-food servers scrape by on minimum wage; contract workers are denied benefits; child-care providers have no paid leave to spend with their own children.
For many of the clients at my food pantry internship, this limited assistance is the difference between unbearable hunger and just being able to scrape by.
Duquesne, Pa. In Tara Thompson's weekly calculations on how to scrape by on $20,363 a year, her daughters are always at the heart of the equation.
We want to live the NYC fantasy life we've dreamed about — but it's not always possible when you're struggling to scrape by in an entry-level job.
Just look at him, loving the celestial hell out of music in a way that only someone who doesn't do it to scrape by a living can.
Meanwhile, many tens of millions of loyal Republicans in struggling regions came to rely on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemployment insurance and disability benefits just to scrape by.
"Sometimes you have to let things fail big so that everyone can identify a problem …maybe that's what needs to happen rather than just continuing to scrape by."
Each shop makes plans to do more than scrape by, whether that means turning into a souvenir shop seasonally, like HausWitch does, or catering to tourists specifically year round.
For a long time, Passmore said, he was offered jobs by well-meaning contacts — minimum-wage retail positions that barely paid enough to scrape by, with no future prospects.
What is already a challenging situation for these households is made all the worse when they have to scrape by on salaries 20 percent lower than those of men.
As a 40-year-old freelance writer living in a converted garage and barely making enough money to scrape by, she wasn't exactly the poster child for financial success.
And although they love the work, many guards are forced to take second jobs to scrape by in a city known for record-high income inequality, rivaling San Francisco.
In Turkey, he said, they scrape by with unstable part-time work and feel threatened by what they see as a rise in anti-gay sentiment in Turkish society.
I didn't have benefits and I was making barely enough to scrape by and I would take dog-sitting and babysitting gigs on the weekend to pay my bills.
The best thing to do may be to find a friend's or your own crappier phone and scrape by with that until the 8 finally rests safely in your hands.
Gina Palomino, her husband and their three children scrape by on his income from occasional building work and her street-corner sales of fruit, interrupted now that she is pregnant.
When their other kids were little, Chip and Joanna were just a couple of newlyweds struggling to scrape by while starting what Joanna called their "rag-tag" house-flipping company.
In Yang's view, $1,000 a month—roughly the federal poverty line for a single-person household—is enough to scrape by, but not enough to lure people away from work.
Democrats overturned GOP majorities in both houses of the legislature in Virginia, and the GOP had to scrape by with an unexpectedly close win in the gubernatorial race in Mississippi.
The fact that some students have to scrape by while the wealthy parents listed in the indictment threw around money to get their children access disturbed the students at Kauffman.
For those who don't partake: Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian mockumentary about three friends who scrape by on their own—not much family around—in Nova Scotia's Sunnyvale Trailer Park.
Media companies have responded with adjustments that are painfully modest compared to the scale of the problem, hoping they can somehow scrape by as Google and Facebook gobble up advertising revenue.
Guides who once led visitors to see lions and elephants in Waza National Park in the north now scrape by with occasional work building new homes in the Minawao Refugee Camp.
From the start of the trial, the defense has peddled the narrative of Mr. Guzmán's impoverished upbringing, how as a child he sold oranges in the streets just to scrape by.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%Summary: In the dark dramatic comedy "Sunshine Cleaning," sisters Rose (Amy Adams) and Norah Lorkowski (Blunt) scrape by with a new family business: cleaning up crime scenes.
Still, this seems like a raw deal, especially given that—as the Outline reported in 2017—it's already tough for many creatives to scrape by much income on Patreon's more generous terms.
Damaged buildings are hollowed-out versions of their former selves, a testament to past lives and aspirations of inhabitants who now scrape by on aid handouts and the bare minimum for survival.
It is not the case anymore that a graduate student teacher can scrape by on meager wages, taking on debt that will be paid off by a steady job in the future.
Even if you can technically scrape by on a higher budget, choosing only to consider places that are manageable will allow you more freedom and flexibility, as CNBC senior editor Ester Bloom learned.
Every ambitious newcomer to Hollywood is signing on for something like the same struggle: scrape by as a waiter, live with tons of roommates, wait for your big break, do whatever it takes.
"I'm not here just to scrape by or drift," Mr. Conte said, demanding a "clear and unequivocal choice" from the coalition partners as to whether they wanted to stay in power or not.
The knowledge that if we allow ourselves to think hard enough about our lives we will realize that they are spent in service of making someone else rich while we merely scrape by?
I think a lot about the people that help me: I wonder what my barista has studied, how much their rent is, whether or not their tips are enough to scrape by each month.
The reality for most Boomers is that they will struggle to scrape by relying far too heavily—or entirely—on Social Security payments which aren't close to enough to survive on for many people.
In China, the defectors have no rights and cannot legally find jobs, so they must scrape by on the margins of society — which is still less risky than trying to get out of China.
Where his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, obtained control over education policy in 2002 with a seven-year mandate, followed by one of six years, this mayor has had to scrape by on one-year extensions.
Because over a century after becoming property of the United States, they have no choice but to scrape by -- a Caribbean colony, paying taxes without representation in Congress and voting only for presidential primaries.
It's a stingy, hard-to-access program that helps some of the country's most desperate citizens scrape by; applying takes months or years, and more than 60 percent of applicants wind up being rejected anyway.
The total stoppage of U.S. production, GM's first since 2007, is expected to cost the company tens of millions of dollars each day while striking workers scrape by with a fraction of their normal pay.
This summer, Google's parent company Alphabet managed to scrape by without paying a 1.11 billion euro ($73 billion) tax bill in France, the Guardian reported, after courts determined its use of an Irish subsidiary was legal.
Money matters vexed him, and he ended up chronically in debt to his record company, Universal, for loans it had made to him to help him scrape by, as well as €9m owing to the taxman.
Many will scrape by at Chungking Mansions, taking up menial jobs illegally, or surviving from the few free services at Christian Action on the top floor, which is the only charity of its kind in the city.
Many of the Yellow Vest demonstrators are protesting how difficult it is to pay rent, feed their families and simply scrape by as living costs — most notably fuel prices — keep rising while their household incomes barely budge.
With few sponsors showing interest, despite the overwhelming success of the film, Jamaican teams have always had to scrape by on backing from a handful of companies, and in recent years, private funding from the original team members.
Where decades ago many drag queens could barely scrape by, with scant gigs available in select urban centers (as chronicled in Esther Newton's Mother Camp), making a living in drag today is all but the norm in some circles.
Housing prices are among the highest in the nation, forcing teachers and other people who have jobs without huge tech salaries to move out of the area or scrape by while paying a substantial amount on rent or housing.
And for so long, I took to heart the poisonous folklore about student-debt martyrs who selflessly scrape by to pay off their loans — those "I only ate Spam and paid off my $160,000 debt in 96 hours" stories.
"Walkaway" takes place in a futuristic Canada after the collapse of modern society, when wealth gets concentrated in the hands of the ultrarich and the less fortunate scrape by in desolate cities that have been gutted by industrial flight.
"It's a stingy, hard-to-access program that helps some of the country's most desperate citizens scrape by; applying takes months or years, and more than 60 percent of applicants wind up being rejected anyway," writes Vox's Dylan Matthews.
To try to turn the trend around, the 41-year-old Renzi continued his furious campaigning for a "Yes" vote on Sunday, repeating on a talk show that he does not intend to "scrape by" as prime minister if he loses.
In between casually watching a tube TV on the fritz, a relatively calm man runs the local general store, supplying essential goods based on a tab system, since everyone there can barely earn enough (mostly from picking crops) to scrape by.
Where Murphy Brown had the leisure to ruminate about politics (it was, after all, part of her job as a reporter), Roseanne was just trying to scrape by, working a series of menial jobs to support her husband and three children.
I managed to scrape by off of the feminine vibes that characters like The Penguin communicated to me, but kids today get to grow up with a rich, wide, representational assortment of fantasy characters to celebrate, obsess over, and identify with.
Kessler had a difficult time even getting accepted by the various platforms she applied to join, and once she did start offering her services, she had little control over her schedule, and no chance of earning any more than she needed to scrape by.
They see a future in which a small group of highly skilled tech workers reign supreme, while the rest of the job world resembles the piecemeal, transitional work we see coming out of tech today (Uber drivers, Etsy shopkeepers, people who scrape by on other people's platforms).
They also envision the train as a social justice engine, offering cheap, reliable transportation to the working people who scrape by, cooking and cleaning for the legions of college students in the Research Triangle, the area that includes the two college towns and Raleigh, the state capital.
It's what keeps viewers invested and coming back for more, along with the fact that this show — which focuses on a wide cross-section of people who need to punch the Cloud 9 clock to scrape by — is more suited than most to present a diverse slate of perspectives.
A lot of this work is being done by people like Renée or Guillaume, people who stay up until 3:0003 in the morning, independently scraping data sets because they get Mozilla fellowships and can barely scrape by, and they're the ones providing the accountability structure right now.
Haggard's "Workin' Man Blues" is perhaps the best exemplification of that lifestyle—what it means to scrape by with a family and children on a wage that sure as hell isn't fair compared to what the bosses make—but it isn't the only one, not by a long shot.
And even though Tormund's talk of getting back to Winterfell to woo Brienne and Beric's musings on how he and his fire sword(!) are ready to die a seventh and final time are the kind of conjectures that usually mark a one-way ticket to death, both manage to scrape by.
Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said in an election-night statement that "it took more than $6 million in outside Republican spending and a last-minute Trump rally" for Bishop "to scrape by in a district" Trump carried by nearly 12 percentage points in 2016.
"In my work as an activist, I have been accused of being funded by the following people: George Soros, George Michael, ancient aliens, the Catholic Church and ancient aliens who have since founded the Catholic Church," Carrefour said, noting that he and his fellow activists scrape by and would reject any kind of financial backing.
Food insecurity prevents the young girl in Harlem from focusing in school because of an empty stomach; causes the young mother in San Antonio to miss multiple meals in order to feed her child; and forces the grandfather in Chicago to scrape by to pay for medicine, which he prioritizes ahead of his next meal.
"Many of these free college proposals are not directing more aid to existing low-income students who are trying to scrape by and come up with the funds to pay their college costs," she says, and instead funneling funds to students who don't need it because they can better afford to pay for school.
"If their lawful basis is consent, then they'll need to get consent before deploying the button for it to be valid — otherwise, they'll have done the transfer before the visitor has consented "If relying on legitimate interests — which might scrape by — then they'll need to have done a legitimate interests assessment, and kept it on file (against the (admittedly unlikely) day that a regulator asks to see it), and they'll need to have a mechanism by which a site visitor can object to the transfer.

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