Sentence examples for had scraped by from inspiring English sources

His mother had scraped by raising two boys on £1/7s/6d a week.

Since its founding in 1718, tiny New Orleans had scraped by on tobacco and indigo crops, a profitless outback of the French Empire.

Mr. Shushkevich said he had scraped by with the help of American scholars -- he worked at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington and lectured at Harvard, Yale and Columbia in early 2000 -- and by making occasional speeches in Poland.

But the flow of money dwindled by the time they separated, and in the last year, Mrs. Pellicano said she had scraped by with only a little money from him.

Her mother, Gwen, who had scraped by writing stories and reading them on Woman's Hour, was a competition whizz – she had won a bottle of Lentheric's Lotus d'Or from Vogue for identifying the silhouettes of 20 scent bottles – and she encouraged Georgina to apply for the Vogue Young Talent contest.

Wow, I thought you were perfect!' " In my case, I stood in front of a group of about 40 people at a Financial Peace University class in Queens and confided that my husband and I had scraped by for two years on one modest income, paycheck to paycheck.

They have scraped by since on her maternity allowance, borrowed cash from family and friends, and sold furniture.

There are a number of games where we've scraped by but we haven't fought or been anywhere like our best".

Over the last decade and a half, I've scraped by with mediocre home office furniture to the detriment of my body and possibly my soul.

"I never imagined all this," Mr. Tally, 49, said as he emerged from City Hall and went out onto the streets where he has scraped by for the past decade.

Rebanks' family has scraped by on this beautiful, unforgiving land for several generations, passing down knowledge of how to choose the best tup and make the best of marginal land.