make ends meet
Example Sentences
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It’s bad enough to feel like you can’t easily make ends meet anymore.
From Salon
“My grandmother struggled to make ends meet when her husband died in a mining accident, making her a widow with three kids still in grade school,” the person wrote.
From MarketWatch
In order to make ends meet, Selena y Los Dinos would perform on street corners, family parties and other social functions.
From Los Angeles Times
The governor has also talked about growing up watching his mother struggle to make ends meet, and how oil executive Gordon Getty and his wife, Ann, gave him experiences his parents could not afford, including an African safari when he was a teen.
From Los Angeles Times
It needs to be said that Green’s approach differs from those articles that regularly appear asking us to commiserate with families earning $400,000 or $500,000 because they can’t make ends meet.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
