11. Canada ekes into quarterfinal with 3-2 win over Germany Eds : UPDATES with quotes. 12. Too often, Carlin ekes out a crowd-pleasing response by citing a complaint and then swearing loudly. 13. Still, Tharoor ekes out time to write, the " other passion " in his life. 14. The former executive now ekes out a living as a convenience store clerk at a truck stop outside of town. 15. Mankind ekes out a living in a few handfuls of settlements, connected by a network of massive armored trains. 16. Mrs . Singh is illiterate and ekes out a living for herself and two surviving sons doing odd jobs at a school. 17. He sleeps in the grass outside a Bucharest railway station, where he ekes out a living begging and running odd errands. 18. Although Kristofferson ekes out something resembling a performance, Glover would have relished such a role, giving the movie more gritty panache. 19. That classification usually means that a person ekes out a precarious livelihood in the urban informal sector or as a poorly paid domestic. 20. A small-time private detective in a good-size American city ekes out a living with missing-person and divorce cases.
