Sentence examples for barely gets by from inspiring English sources
Now he barely gets by as a banana farmer.
How much longer he can earn a living doing what he loves — he barely gets by now — rests on finding new work to replace what he has lost.
Like many people here, Mrs. Pettway, the mother of seven, barely gets by, living, she estimates, on about $5,000 a year.
The book leaps to Burbank, Calif., where a family barely gets by in the wake of the Depression: "The yard a brown painting of motionless calm / The packed, ochre dirt and the lone, scraggly palm".
He lives in a rent-subsidized youth hostel in the Hammersmith section of West London, and barely gets by on the £103 ($163) in unemployment benefits he receives every two weeks.
Ms. Evans, who works part time for the United States Postal Service and barely gets by, also received $1,300 from the Neediest Cases, a separate allocation to help her buy food, mattresses, furniture and clothes for her children.
An indispensable tool used by millions and feared by governments worldwide, barely getting by!
They were barely getting by.
