"making a livelihood" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe the process of earning a living, usually through one's work. Example: "Many people in rural areas struggle to make a livelihood by farming."
"Our ways of making a livelihood, the very homes we live in, our schools, have basically been taken away from us," she said.
"They serve as interpreters only because they have no other means of making a livelihood," the reformist scholar Feng Guai-fen wrote.
Mellon, born in 1907, was the son of the financier Andrew Mellon, but he refused to enter the family business or do anything resembling making a livelihood.
People are making a livelihood out of this". The trend toward smaller farming can be seen locally in farm Census data.
," id., at 9; "(t)hat the plaintiffs are recklessly using the power of the State of Washington to deprive the defendant (sic ) and each of them of their means of making a livelihood..
On the streets of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, where most of the showcases took place, conversations revolved around T-shirt salicensingnsing deals, corporate sponsors, tour arrangements and other ways musicians are making a livelihood now that they can't count on sales of recordings.
Sundequist, a former snowboarder, has made a livelihood out of judging the event.
A chance to make a livelihood at something they love to do".
"We are just trying to make a livelihood, to eat," she shouted.
She and her older brother made a livelihood reciting Sanskrit scripture.
But it's tough…because people do need these resources to survive and to make a livelihood.
