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
The matter of giving us each day our daily bread was clearly up to us girls to figure out, and the sheer work of it exhausted me.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
