Sentence examples for scrapes by from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lerma's Philippine museum barely scrapes by.

Steelmaking scrapes by on microscopic margins that make even airlines look like paragons of profitability.

A divorced mother of two, she still has a job making candy but barely scrapes by.

Ms. Schairer's rent consumes more than half her income, and she scrapes by on food stamps.

Fitzpatrick, 24, scrapes by, using his wits and the Couchsurfing Web site to cut costs.

He gives lectures in high schools and scrapes by on an army pension.

Tarred and scarred by scrapes, ruined by gunk.

Americans are barely scraping by.

But we scraped by.

Still, I scraped by.

"You scrape by".