Sentence examples for we are just scraping by from inspiring English sources

"We are just scraping by".

Or as Mrs. DeFede, 74, explained, "We're just scraping by".

They have nice gardens, and everyone seems pretty happy, except maybe the village dogs, which are just scraping by.

Many of these people are just scraping by, shopping at Dollar General, very often without access to banks and health insurance, fearing the next layoff or illness.

There is one real brick and mortar retailer left, Best Buy, and thousands of struggling Mom and Pop stores and chains that are just scraping by.

Others are just scraping by.

So even during prosperity, many people are just scraping by.

Some people are just scraping by and need the work.

Seven dollars may not seem like much money to the majority of Burbank residents, but it all these little hits to subsidies have a way of adding up to create a distressing impact on those who are just scraping by.

Savings are down as people are just scraping by, so the only thing left is Social Security". What's baffling is that Harkin's pension remedy is not to mandate that employers cough up higher contributions to 401(k) accounts to make them walk, talk and quack like regular pensions but to simply give all Americans access to a puny plan.

We are just scraping the surface of a real-time revolution but make no mistake, it is a big deal.