Sentence examples for barely scraping by from inspiring English sources

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.

Many banks are barely scraping by in traditional Wall Street business.

We had three kids, and I was barely scraping by to pay the mortgage.

But here I was — single, barely scraping by in Manhattan and pregnant.

None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by.

But he was barely scraping by and decided to try his luck in the United States.