How to Use make ends meet in a Sentence

make ends meet

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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
  • Johnson isn’t the only one making sacrifices to make ends meet.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Around the world, most caregivers are either uncompensated or inadequately compensated, and many rely on public assistance where available to make ends meet.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Dex takes up a job as a private investigator to make ends meet and get out of her gambling debt, relying on a detective (Ealy) to give her leads and on her bar-owner best friend (Johnson) for support.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Ly, 16, and her sister Nhi, 13, two of nine children from a fishing family on Vietnam’s rocky northern coast, have long drifted in and out of school as the family struggled to make ends meet.
    — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • In their ongoing quest to get younger and make ends meet under the salary cap, the Chiefs were left to reconcile the loss of two other starting defensive backs (Jaylen Watson and Bryan Cook) who got paid big elsewhere.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Fishing fleets often rely on a few key species to make ends meet, said Sunny Jardine, a resource and environmental economist at the University of Washington.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • Many of my patients are having more trouble making ends meet over the past few years, especially as grocery prices have risen roughly 25% in nominal terms since 2022 – a jump that has outpaced wage growth for many low-income households.
    — Amelia B. Finaret, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 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

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