How to Use make ends meet in a Sentence

make ends meet

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• 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
• Currently, nearly 50 percent of working-age households are struggling to make ends meet.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Rather, those with lower incomes and who earn lower returns are much likelier in Morningstar’s simulation to clean their accounts out, using the cash to buy a car, pay for an education or just make ends meet.
  — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 3 July 2026
• Trump taking the country to war with Iran, in part at the urging of his pal Bibi — without any sensible plan, debate, sanction from Congress or consideration as to how this might hurt Americans already struggling to make ends meet.
  — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
• His true seasonal arc begins not with Bruce’s (Damon Daunno) death but rather in the Brick & Bacon, a New York City diner where a 20something waitress named Regina (Delainey Hayles) works shifts that don’t get her any closer to making ends meet.
  — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026