Sentence examples similar to I scrape by from inspiring English sources
For years I scraped by with one day job or another, mostly gypsy clerical stuff.
Hector and I scraped by, but it took nearly depleting our life savings to pay our bills and daily expenses for almost a year.
Instead, I scraped by in my classes and many of my friendships dwindled.
I don't know how I'd scrape by, either.
After two months, my money was running out, but I was encouraged to write and when I had articles published by VICE, I was paid the same as a freelancer, so I could scrape by.
"Only one internship really paid an amount that I could scrape by on," Mr. Baird said: "In places like Vogue, I was getting paid $12 a day and working 25 to 30 hours a week.
If that happens, he thought, it will be hard, but I'll scrape by one way or another.
I could probably live alone but I'd barely scrape by".
I go grocery shopping on Sunday and usually run out of food for meals by Thursday night, which means I have to scrape by for two more days.
