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eke out

verb

to make (a supply) last, esp by frugal use
they eked out what little food was left
to support (existence) with difficulty and effort
to add to (something insufficient), esp with effort
to eke out an income with evening work

The polls say Republicans will likely eke out a small majority in the Senate this Election Day.

They made the playoffs just four times and managed to eke out only one playoff series win.

It's hard to find an extra 18,000 votes by squinting hard, but you can probably eke out a few hundred.

Thanks to an unexpectedly strong showing in the West and the farm belt, Truman managed to eke out re-election.

Polls suggests he should be able to eke out a win of three points or so.

She had no ambition whatever, and merely hoped to be able to eke out in this way her slender resources.

These you can eke out by working late into the night, and rising when the day dawns.

During this time he had been obliged to pinch himself in a thousand ways in order to eke out his modest allowance.

In this way these highlanders eke out their meager supply of meat.

Such appetites as you boys are developing threaten to eat us out of house and home soon, unless we eke out with game.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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