eked; eking
2
: to get with great difficulty
—usually used with out
eke out a living
Examples of eke in a Sentence
Verb
eked out a living from the family's small farm
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Total sales eked up to $722.7 billion from $721.3 billion in the month.
—Grace L. Williams, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
For the week, the S & P 500 eked a 0.2% gain while the Nasdaq rose 0.5%.
—Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2025
By 56%, Per Paramount Global Nielsen says that 78% of the Reacher viewership this week came from the three new episodes, which could explain why Zero Day eked past, since all six episodes of that show were new.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
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Verb
That just leaves a subset of this industry, the hospitals, trying to eke that out.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Total sales eked up to $722.7 billion from $721.3 billion in the month.
—Grace L. Williams, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
For the week, the S & P 500 eked a 0.2% gain while the Nasdaq rose 0.5%.
—Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2025
By 56%, Per Paramount Global Nielsen says that 78% of the Reacher viewership this week came from the three new episodes, which could explain why Zero Day eked past, since all six episodes of that show were new.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Eke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eke. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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