Sentence examples for modest living from from inspiring English sources

In her last years, La Lupe earned a modest living from recordings of Christian music.

Every summer, 18 overseas players, one for each first-class county, make a modest living from this strange, closeted world.

In the face of this steady stream of rejection, St. Ignace carves out its own modest living from summer tourism.

Henry IV was neither greatly interested in poetry nor notably generous, but Malherbe attained the position of court poet and a modest living from court patronage.

Over the next few years, Yates made only a modest living from his stories, but they brokered his reputation, and secured the interest and encouragement of a publisher who, like all publishers, wanted a novel, not a book of stories.

BILIN, West Bank — Emad Burnat was born to the land and, like generations of his family in this hilltop West Bank village, he has eked out a modest living from its rocky soil.

In the bus I met an organic farmer who made a modest living near Santa Cruz from growing tomatoes on two acres of land.

She earns a modest living buying rice in bulk from local farmers and reselling it in one of the town's markets.

Joseph Charles* – a father of three girls, two of them 12-year-old twins – is a rice farmer from Leogane who made a modest living until the earthquake left his family without shelter or an income.

Before becoming a coffee farmer, he earned a modest living trading rice in Tanjungbalai, 200 kilometers (124 miles) away from his hometown.

A country matron received a letter from a nice young man who makes a modest living puttering about gardens and garages in the neighborhood.