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"scratch out a living" Definitions
  1. to earn barely enough money to live

23 Sentences With "scratch out a living"

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Sorry We Missed You is the story of a working-class English family trying to scratch out a living any way possible.
With the decline and demise of The Realist, Mr. Krassner had to scratch out a living, and eventually Social Security checks were a mainstay.
With the decline and demise of The Realist, Mr. Krassner had to scratch out a living, and eventually Social Security checks were a mainstay.
It's become impossible to deny that it's increasingly difficult to scratch out a living while hoping you get that book contract/record deal/star role you've been banking on.
Ms. Harrington's niece, Rhonda Hughes, says it is still a middle-class block of homeowning families trying to scratch out a living and enjoy a few comforts and pleasures.
"She spoke with contempt for the people who pay their taxes and scratch out a living while Hillary Clinton lives a sequestered life behind gates and locks and guards."
North of town, a small river flows by, the only reason humans were able to scratch out a living before tourists started flooding the area to visit its striking geological formations.
A businessman like Trump should know this and support this grit from people willing to leave their families and cultures behind to scratch out a living here in the United States.
Many schools are shuttering in the once-wealthy nation as malnourished children and teachers who earn almost nothing abandon classrooms to scratch out a living on the streets or flee abroad.
Many schools are shuttering in the once-wealthy nation as malnourished children and teachers who earn almost nothing abandon classrooms to scratch out a living on the streets or flee abroad.
This means ranchers — particularly those struggling to scratch out a living on hardscrabble desert lands where conservation buyers are often the only willing buyers of grazing privileges — will suffer alongside the environment.
As it stands now, the working class is a bunch of people just trying to scratch out a living, and they're not, for the most part, itching to wage a war against the rich.
I don't know how historically accurate it is, but you sure feel the raw urgency of trying to scratch out a living as a hunter in the unforgiving climates of northern England without much protection from the elements.
Sorry We Missed You is the story of a working-class English family trying to scratch out a living any way possible, and of the indignities they experience within a system of short-term contracts and gig work.
It's an intimate and accessible drama about a family of small-time petty crooks who live in a small house, scratch out a living, and take in a young girl who appears to have lost her family altogether.
The film is an intimate and accessible drama about a family of small-time petty crooks who live in a small house, scratch out a living, and take in a young girl who appears to have lost her family.
The film is an intimate and accessible drama about a family of small-time petty crooks who live in a small house, scratch out a living, and take in a young girl who appears to have lost her family altogether.
He wore flip-flops without socks in the winter, a ragged grey sweater and had hung a rickety shoeshine kit on his shoulder, indicators of the type of poverty that has become all too common in Turkey among Syrian refugees struggling to scratch out a living.
By the 287s, during the city's economic downturn and near-bankruptcy, the term S.R.O. had acquired a sinister overtone, with many hotels filling up with drug dealers, prostitutes and released convicts who would frighten other tenants trying to scratch out a living and would disturb their neighbors with drunken brawls.
First cow in a frontier settlement, that is — a 19th-century collection of tiny houses somewhere in Oregon, near the Columbia River, populated by people who are trying to scratch out a living in the New World, as well as the First Nations people who've been living there for generations.
Sorry We Missed You is the story of a working-class English family trying to scratch out a living any way possible and of the indignities they experience while trying to navigate within a system of short-term contracts and gig work that ostensibly makes employees the "masters of their own destiny" (to paraphrase an employer in the film) but actually just removes any responsibility the employers might bear.
But more than a dozen interviews with energy executives, property developers, analysts and locals here in Añelo, considered the capital of Vaca Muerta, show how patience is running out for global energy giants including Halliburton Co and Schlumberger NV once committed to tapping the region's reserves, as well as the thousands of Argentines trying to scratch out a living in a region that was bustling just 12 months ago.
Sorry We Missed You is the story of a working-class English family trying to scratch out a living any way possible, and of the indignities they experience while trying to navigate within a system of short-term contracts and gig work that ostensibly make employees the "masters of their own destiny" (to paraphrase a employer in the film) but actually just remove any responsibility the employers might bear.

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