How to Use make ends meet in a Sentence

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• But prices alone can't show what families are doing to make ends meet.
  — Jamie Stockwell, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
• About 56% of all households in the county are struggling to make ends meet.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
• Some children are quitting school and starting to work to help their families make ends meet.
  — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
• Most of the time the couple has to borrow money from friends or sell some of their belongings to make ends meet.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
• Johnson isn’t the only one making sacrifices to make ends meet.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
• Many also use rewards points to pay for essentials or rely on credit cards to make ends meet.
  — Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
• However, consumers dipped into their savings to make ends meet.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 July 2026
• Now a widower, Tom is struggling to make ends meet for himself and his daughter.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026
• Some people are going to great lengths to save money and make ends meet, others are thriving and feel kind of guilty about their good fortune.
  — Sarah Gonzalez, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
• Today, nearly half of American households can’t make ends meet.
  — Jim Shelton, Fortune, 17 July 2026
• It was inspired by my partner’s plight in academia, one that mirrored my own plight as a former freelancer barely making ends meet.
  — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
• Too many South Carolina families are struggling to make ends meet.
  — Justin Papp, CNBC, 20 July 2026
• Few, if any, retirement planners would suggest that every retiree needs $1 million to make ends meet.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 18 July 2026
• Lee was a sharecropper who sometimes worked construction jobs to make ends meet, and Avie was a homemaker.
  — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
• Abraham died when Brooks was only 2, leaving his brothers to help raise Mel and make ends meet in the household.
  — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
• And as the cost-of-living crisis chews up measly wages, over 40 million Americans have to turn to food stamps to make ends meet.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 July 2026
• Carter is now considering becoming a security guard to make ends meet.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
• Currently, nearly 50 percent of working-age households are struggling to make ends meet.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• The increase is partly driven by rising costs of living and broader problems for families in making ends meet.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026
• Many middle-class families earn too much to qualify for government assistance but still struggle to make ends meet.
  — Kaysia Earley, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
• Many people who are on TV or are heads of corporations at one time waited tables, slept in cars or worked more than one job to make ends meet.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 27 July 2026
• Every week, new households reach out in need, families, seniors and individuals struggling to make ends meet.
  — Christine Franz, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026
• De Souza first started working at a Wendy's restaurant in Massachusetts to make ends meet during high school.
  — ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
• The history of socialism has taught us that the real victims are average people — the working person who struggles to make ends meet.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2026
• And while billionaires and millionaires are watching their bank accounts surge thanks to appreciating assets, others are scraping by to make ends meet.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 July 2026
• Gerber said some of their friends were going through a difficult time, including one who was working at a Texas airport's bar trying to make ends meet for his family.
  — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
• Just as many people can’t afford to have someone else clean their homes, landscape their yards or nanny their kids, those struggling to make ends meet may need to lean on AI assistance.
  — Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
• But after their father leaves for Switzerland, the girls’ mother, Esma (Simonida Selimovic), can’t make ends meet.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
• Meanwhile, workers across CSU campuses have rallied at fall convocations over the last few weeks to draw attention to their struggle to make ends meet.
  — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
• Jinnifer Hicks, one of the mothers who attended the event, said raising children as a single parent can mean constantly balancing the needs of a family while trying to make ends meet.
  — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026