eke
verb (used with object)
to increase; enlarge; lengthen.
ekes
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present tense formof eke (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Finding a fresh plot twist is the only way it ekes out a draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Once juggling multiple odd jobs, Helal Uddin now ekes out a living running a food cart.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
Today the 70-year-old struggles with respiratory illness and ekes out a living ferrying people and parcels on his scooter.
From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022
Instead of bleating big themes, it ekes feeling from repression in telling the story of a character who does the same.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
With coco-nuts and an occasional ray, he ekes out an existence, hungry, cheerless, without light, without tobacco.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
