Pensioners are forced to retire and then eke out a miserable living.
Nomadic tribes still eke out a living from the surrounding deserts.
There are only a few scattered settlements within its borders, and a few nomadic tribes of savages eke out a miserable existence on the coast.
Bedouins are a nomadic people who somehow eke a living from moving around the desert, from oasis to wadi.
One of the most obvious defects of this school is excessive attachment to polysyllabic terms. Lydgate is not quite so great a sinner in this respect as are some of his successors, but his tendency cannot be mistaken, and John Metham is amply justified in his censure Eke John Lydgate, sometime monk of Bury, His books indited with terms of rhetoric And half-changed Latin, with conceits of poetry.