Sentence examples for scrape by with from inspiring English sources

"If they do manage to somehow scrape by with further cuts later this year, they will have an even bigger problem next year".

He was never a bookish boy and managed to scrape by with the minimum of work.

Candidates for city office usually scrape by with traditional sorts of volunteers: college students, retirees, the occasional neighborhood activist.

After years of having to scrape by with little funding, including working in bitty jobs such as an extra in TV soaps, she welcomes being centre stage.

They mostly scrape by with black-market jobs.The bidoon have often been accused of treason, for instance of supporting Iran or backing Saddam Hussein during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

While money was poured almost entirely into (often inelegant) construction, Maxxi's collection and programming, not to mention its bare-bones though top-flight staff, have had to scrape by with what was left.

For years I scraped by with one day job or another, mostly gypsy clerical stuff.

But, he said, he was scraping by with the help of others.

However, Trump scraped by with second place and Clinton barely held on to beat Bernie Sanders by the tiniest of margins.

Sales people who earned $4,000 a month say they are scraping by with incomes of less than $1,000.

Monet, scraping by with a mistress who became his wife, and their child, repeatedly dunned him for support.