Sentence examples for barely scrapes by from inspiring English sources
Mr. Lerma's Philippine museum barely scrapes by.
A divorced mother of two, she still has a job making candy but barely scrapes by.
The rich have literally hijacked this country, and we're done allowing our ersatz nobility to buy whatever the hell they want while the common man barely scrapes by.
"There have been so few tourists since the revolution," said Mohammad, a former salesman at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent who returned home to be closer to his family, but now barely scrapes by touting for business as a tour guide outside the pyramids.
After six years of "barely scraping by", Brook Drumm, a California-based web designer, had accumulated about $50,000 in credit-card debt.
Americans are barely scraping by.
They fend for themselves, barely scraping by.
But on her low wages, she is barely scraping by.
Mr. Avlonitis says he is barely scraping by himself.
Yet, he says now, he was barely scraping by.
We had three kids, and I was barely scraping by to pay the mortgage.
