daily bread
Example Sentences
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"We just want to live and earn our daily bread," said Ali, an Iranian man in his 30s, who asked to use a pseudonym.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
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
“A large slice of the population in the Roman Empire were people who sweated for their daily bread but were also anxious to raise their social status,” the park’s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2022
Antelope is more or less our daily bread.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
