Sentence examples for scraps of bread from inspiring English sources
The wine is local, made from fermented fruit cups, with yeast coming from scraps of bread.
When they feel like it, they give me scraps of bread".
A chorus of voices told of the struggle to survive during the relentless bombings, scrabbling for scraps of bread, and drinking water from an old well.
The prisoners fight over scraps of bread, and only one, a frail, saintly figure played by Emmanuelle Riva of Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," seems capable of feeling shame and compassion, and inevitably kills herself.
Vendors buy his supply at 3 cents a pound and then resell it at this refugee camp, where a paste of boiled, spiced scraps of bread is often the only meal.
Originally it was a humble peasant treat on bread-baking day, made from a scrap of bread dough and baked on the stone floor of a village's wood-fired oven.
All she wanted was a better quality of life for the 14,000 people of her home town, a place of cattle-raising in thorny chaparral amid dense tropical forest; to pull the place out of its neglect, in which most people "have to tear their souls apart every day to get a scrap of bread for their children".
Not because of the daily massacres, the Scud missiles or the Mig helicopters; nor because of Syria's transformation into a hell on earth, where people die every day as they wait in line for a scrap of bread, where Assad's aircraft bombard the bread ovens so that the people will starve.
Arnold Schwarzenegger outlawed production in California in 2004 in a cheap scrap of bread and circuses politics – his state had only one producer – and Chicago prohibited the sale of foie gras in its restaurants between 2006 and 2008, the mayor commenting that this brief ban was "the silliest thing they [the city council] have ever done".
You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud, Who does not know peace, Who fights for a scrap of bread, Who dies because of a yes or a no.
