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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

The Synod of 1818 also staked its hopes on Franklin College, which, however, was eking out a pitiable existence, and finally became the exclusive property of the Reformed.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)