make ends meet
Example Sentences
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Andrew Hall, 24, works as a bartender and waiter at a restaurant in Guildford, Surrey, and says he struggles to make ends meet each month.
From BBC
More than 50 Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide closed in the last year; some are consolidating to make ends meet or adding new procedures such as vasectomies.
Buffalo, N.Y., native Kelly McCoy had been struggling to make ends meet on her $80,000 salary as an insurance analyst until she moved to Albania in the summer of 2024 to take advantage of its American visa.
Households struggling to make ends meet have fallen behind on energy payments, leading to a collective debt to suppliers of well over £4bn.
From BBC
"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
