get by

Example Sentences

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If you pass away before claiming Social Security, your wife gets 100% of your FRA amount, not the amount you would have gotten by delaying to 69½ or 70.

From MarketWatch

"We were barely getting by as it is. I don't know how people will manage," she told AFP at a Cairo market.

From Barron's

Instead, she has got by doing occasional jobs.

From BBC

To be sure, people who earn much lower than average incomes are more likely to report having trouble getting by on their incomes.

From MarketWatch

She eventually found a job at a charity and realised that the only way she could get by was to "do something good here", in Russia.

From Barron's