John Densmore

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his head. To remember the lyrics he would think of melodies and then they would stay in his head. He had melodies and lyrics in his head, and he would sing them a cappella, and we would eke out the arrangements.

American Musician

Irvine Welsh

I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

Scottish Novelist

Elliott Abrams

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

American Lawyer

Viola Davis

I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.

American Actress

Dawn Foster

Cooking requires time, effort and fuel: increasing numbers of people I've visited can't even afford to turn on the kettle for a cup of tea as they eke out every penny to feed their extortionate gas and electric meters.

British Journalist

Jeff Nichols

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

American Director

Linda Grant

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

British Novelist

Devin Townsend

For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.

Canadian Musician

Rufus Wainwright

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Miguel Ferrer

The first several years I was an actor, I sort of eked out a living playing thugs almost exclusively until 'Robocop.

American Actor

Using 'eke' implies a struggle due to scarce resources or difficult conditions.

Scarcity Implication

'Eke out' often suggests only a small, hard-fought gain or enhancement.

Grudging Improvement

'Eke' typically denotes making an effort in the face of adversity.

Uphill Effort

'Eke' conveys adding small amounts, especially to money or resources.

Incremental Addition

Using 'eke' indicates that added effort was necessary to achieve something.

Extra Effort

'Eke' often suggests that the action is taken as a last resort to meet needs.

Last Resort

 And the more I learned, the more I started to change my own life. I started traveling less, doing less, using less. It felt like actually doing less was what we had to do. But it sat uneasy with me. It didn't feel right. It felt like we were buying ourselves time. We were eking things out a bit longer.

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 find various kinds of teak trees but I don't think and they'll be related to tea trees as you find in other parts of the world of course we get a tea tree here we get the Transvaal teak tree actually we get two types of teak trees we have the transport eke and we get to

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 everything belongs to someone even the rubbish like any outcasts forced to live on the edge of society these monkeys are simply trying to eke out a living snatching food where they can but every time they drop litter curb crawl raid

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 As the spiral of recursive improvement gathers momentum, we eke out victories against the forces that grind us down, not least the darker parts of our own nature. We penetrate the mysteries of the cosmos, including life and mind.

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 I tried on the idea of eking out another two years in Washington, or maybe uprooting my sons from their school and my husband from his work and asking them to join me. But deep down, I knew that the right decision was to go home,

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 Deeper in the depths of our gut city, the syntrophs eke out a living off the fermenters' trash. At each step of this process, energy is released, and that energy is absorbed by the cells of the digestive tract.

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 this fellow come to eke out their days until they are big and strong enough to take a pod or get into a pod all where old fellows come to retire and spend their dotage in peace in amongst the egyptian geese

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 out basically the UN and all the aid groups left and it was just myself and two other journalists and we slept in an abandoned aid camp UN camp and we just we had to eke out our film I mean this

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 until now while gorillas were not considered tool users some in captivity have used sticks to eke out a tasty treat but this behavior was never observed in the wild and there was more