Sentence examples similar to hard to scrape by from inspiring English sources

"If it wasn't for the Chinese shops, it would be harder to scrape by," said Ester Maduerga, 30, a saleswoman at a sports shoe store, as she scanned the notepads, leather belts and plastic alligators at One Hundred and More, a Chinese-owned bazaar here.

But for struggling Americans, it will only reduce wages, lower job opportunities, and make it harder to scrape by".

Needy families are finding it difficult to scrape by.

But it remains hard to scrape an existence from the refuse of middle-class life.

It's hard to scrape together the capital, and the tax code is nearly impossible to comprehend.

If the crayon is warm and hard to scrape, freeze it with an ice cube.

This makes it a lot harder to scrape off.

If it gets harder to scrape off, add warmer water.

Some like Ms. Smith were groundbreakers, occasionally hard-drinking and rowdy, but sometimes they had to scrape by.

He does odd construction jobs to scrape by.

Everyone described a life of constantly trying to scrape by.