daily bread
Example Sentences
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Turkel’s book stressed that work was a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
Leo cited in particular "Ukraine, Gaza, Haiti, Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic, Yemen and South Sudan", among other countries "where poverty has become the daily bread".
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
"We are tired now. We wake up angry, we can't feed our children the daily bread and milk they ask for," said 57-year-old homemaker Mariel Segovia in Tapiales near Buenos Aires.
From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2023
And that was a shock to him, because while he occasionally saw his mom light up, “it wasn’t our daily bread at all.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023
Antelope is more or less our daily bread.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
