make ends meet
Example Sentences
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All the while he was juggling home life and working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“We have to get creative and find new ways to make ends meet through side jobs like selling clothes and making yogurt,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Intensive farming practices themselves contribute to climate change, and farmland is increasingly being abandoned by producers who cannot make ends meet or survive harvests lost to extreme weather.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Families that are already struggling to make ends meet may have little room to sacrifice income.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Black families, often working very hard to make ends meet, wanted to clearly define which behavior was acceptable and which was not.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
