How to Use make ends meet in a Sentence

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• About 56% of all households in the county are struggling to make ends meet.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
• Today, nearly half of American households can’t make ends meet.
  — Jim Shelton, Fortune, 17 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In a time when life is becoming increasingly unaffordable and people are struggling to make ends meet, the Miami Herald wants to know what’s impacting your decision to donate to religious institutions.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 9 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