Sentence examples for hung on by from inspiring English sources

The workers had been trained for technology that died a hundred years earlier, and just kind of hung on by accident.

We hung on by our teeth".

For many years, it hung on by its teeth.

By the turn of the 19th century, American whaling hung on by a corset thread.

I committed myself, hung on by my fingernail and pulled myself up to a better hold.

Wiesenthal hung on; by the time the camp was liberated by the Americans in May 1945, he was little more than a bundle of bones.

Even the survivors hang on by a thread.

The Postcard Company has managed to hang on by diversifying its business into art printing.

And there are marginal players who hang on by their fingernails.

In the end, both hang on by making sure they provide whatever services are needed by the families that call.

Charlie LeDuff, a reporter for The New York Times, often writes about folks who claw and hang on by their fingernails.