eke
verb (used with object)
to increase; enlarge; lengthen.
was eking
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past progressiveof eke.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At that time, he was eking out a living by giving golf clinics for a couple of hundred dollars apiece.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2020
That means Bird was eking out $0.70 in profit per ride, or a 19 percent gross profit margin.
From The Verge ● Dec. 16, 2018
In 1858, Walt Whitman, at the age of thirty-nine, was eking out a living as a journalist at the Brooklyn Daily Times, generating thousands of words a week at an unflagging pace.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2017
The small chain was eking out a minor profit, but they decided a change was needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
When Thackeray was thirty he was eking out a meager income writing poems, reviews, criticisms and editorials.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard
