live off
Example Sentences
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Will the Social Security Administration allow us to live overseas while receiving Social Security retirement benefits, or would we have to forget about those benefits and live off other sources of income?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
She was also made to live off scraps.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
With little manufacturing, Nepali people still live off farming, even as the population has become more educated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
If that doesn’t pan out for either of them, Tamma figures they’ll just chuck it all and live off the grid in Utah: “After graduation, you just go, ‘I’m not going to college!
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
“I will be glad to help. I will teach you how to live off the land. It is very easy. No one need find you.”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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