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eke out
verb
to make (a supply) last, esp by frugal use
they eked out what little food was left
to support (existence) with difficulty and effort
to add to (something insufficient), esp with effort
to eke out an income with evening work
Idioms and Phrases
Supplement, make last, as in The survivors eked out their food and water until they were rescued . [Late 1500s]
Get with great difficulty or effort, as in The soil was terrible but they managed to eke out a living by rotating crops . [Early 1800s]
Example Sentences
Every run that Australia managed to eke out for their final wicket would have gnawed away at Bavuma who was, if we are being hypercritical, guilty of a slight captaincy misstep.
Cummins, who reached 300 Test wickets after he took 6-28, said any runs his side can eke out for their last two wickets could be vital.
From club cricket in Cheshire and Birmingham, to T20 leagues in Canada and the Cayman Islands, there was a time when Webster thought he would simply "eke out a steady career".
“It’s this kind of lawless arena where people are trying to eke out their own ideas about justice,” he recently said over coffee near his home in New York City.
Both candidates now are trying to "bring their enemies to the battlefield" to eke out an advantage, he added.
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