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Example sentences for: eking

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Very little flourishes here — perhaps a solitary acacia tree whose deep roots seek water deep below the surface — but the odd desert fox will raise its long ears above the skyline, and you’ll still see family groups of wild camels eking out an existence.
A sensitive, old-fashioned youth, failing to survive in the hurlyburly of English popular music, eking out a living crooning sentimental nostalgia to elderly matrons on the European night club circuit.