eking out

Bats that had once lived deep in the forest were now eking out a living on mango trees and near pig farms.

At the end of the close match, Canada found itself in the lead, eking out a 1-0 win.

Romney held his own most of the time, and polls by CBS and CNN showed the president eking out only a narrow victory.

I must wander around in foreign parts, a private gentleman eking out my living by some kind of industry.

They did what they could, eking out their scanty earnings by eel-fishing on the marshes, and occasionally snaring a few wild fowl.

Tags like these are everywhere present, especially in verse, where they must often have proved convenient in eking out the metre.

And he blurted out the whole story, eking out what he lacked in detail, by insistent questioning of his father.

In weeks of uncertainty the time went by, eking out to the harrowed, homesick boy but a mere existence.