1.   And when the economy tumbled so did their already meager living.

2.   Black, gay and extremely moody, he ekes out a meager living telling fortunes and donning drag to lip-sync to Billie Holiday records in a gay bar.

3.   He has made a living at prestidigitation, a meager living he says.

4.   In Glen Allan, nearly all the blacks work as sharecroppers, bending through the hard rows of cotton to eke out a meager living.

5.   It was, he said, a meager living.

6.   Like King and Brammer, Milner had scratched out a meager living with his writing through much of the previous decade.

7.   Local farmers who make a meager living by selling lumber and firewood have continued to quietly cut the trees.

8.   The rest eke out a meager living on their pensions or are cared for by family.

9.   These residents, thousands of whom had to be evacuated this week, make a meager living farming the poor soil and raising livestock.

10.   To earn a meager living, Pedro finds employment as secretary to an important government official, applying himself assiduously to his work.