breadline

Example Sentences

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Myles and Creevy play a successful business owner and her new "down on her luck" cleaner who is living on the breadline, Barry said.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

When the tour’s over, I’m back on the breadline, honey.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

The true number of people on the breadline may be much higher.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023

The rising rates are not just affecting people on the breadline or on social welfare, he added.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2023

The urban poor keep out of the breadline by money.

From Rural Problems of Today by Groves, Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford)