Sentence examples for augment their incomes from inspiring English sources

Others sell sex to support their families, augment their incomes as nurses or teachers, or put themselves through school.

Animals who talk and behave like people are at least as old as Aesop, though of course neither Aesop nor Beatrix Potter had a reserve army of movie stars eager to augment their incomes by doing voice work.

Thus this kind of multifunctional approach to farm life can be considered a new option for economic diversification in rural areas that enables farms to augment their incomes and thus be able to continue their valuable traditional activities as well.

Danny and Leanna Marley, the owners, raise chickens -- 60,000 of them -- to augment their income from pottery.

Mr Ayala and his wife augment their income with two market shops.

The glory of Westminster is that they want to be artists, and that they can sing in choruses to augment their income".

But most drug prices are lower now than they were a decade ago; and young people, in particular, may augment their income by dealing.

While his wife, Sarah, sewed dresses upstairs to augment their income, slaves in the brick basement roasted West Indies coffee beans to supply politicians, merchants and ministers with caffeine.

Strolling food vendors sold coffee, pie and doughnuts -- Walt Whitman described one of these for the daily Aurora in the 1840s -- and wholesale oyster dealers found that they could augment their income by selling oysters on the half shell and oyster stew.

The effort worked best among farmers who had well-irrigated land and were able to grow enough wheat that they could invest in secondary businesses in towns to augment their income, according to David Mansfield, a researcher at Tufts University who has tracked the rural livelihoods in Helmand Province for more than a decade and recently published an exhaustive study of the province's rural economy.

In Iraq, during the embargo years of the 1990s, it's no surprise that corrupt Baath party members found illicit ways to augment their income through looting of antiquities.