Sentence examples for tiny income from inspiring English sources

Endless dishonesty and parasitical ruthlessness are required to live on a tiny income.

He makes a tiny income from odd jobs like caring for pets.

HAVANA — Until a few weeks ago, Erik González's decrepit car did little more than devour his tiny income.

For his 12-hour shift he earns about $4, but even this tiny income is desperately needed.

Even during those two years when he was claiming unemployment cheques, they enjoyed a good life on a tiny income – impossible in today's New York.

And when she does, it's painfully clear that this tough, angry woman is not about to do anything that could jeopardize the tiny income that her husband provides.

There are plenty more struggling by on tiny incomes.

"I don't believe in all this living on tiny incomes, keeping things intact for the sake of grown children who can earn their own way," he had said.

Portfolios of the Poor (Princeton, 2009) aptly demonstrates with long-term, in-depth financial diaries, that we have no idea how complex it gets trying to feed a family on an unpredictable, tiny income--or how inventive poor families are in saving and borrowing to get by.

What tiny incomes they earn come exclusively from selling fruits and vegetables grown on small plots surrounding their homes.

My mother comes from a Southern family, though she's always lived in the North, and she has a tiny private income that has conditioned the dialogue since my childhood.