Synonym: rub along, scrape along, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by. Similar words: scrape, scraper, scraped, scrape out, skyscraper, bow and scrape, scrape along, crape. Meaning: v. manage one's existence barely.
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(1) We're barely scraping by on my salary.
(2) I scraped by borrowing from my relations until my next check arrived.
(3) I can just scrape by on what my parents give me.
(4) In the rural areas, people could scrape by, thanks to what they grew themselves.
(5) Furious Republicans united against it, and it barely scraped by.
(6) It'seems the city can scrape by and avoid having such an overseer.
(7) Clouds scrape by the snow-covered Iliamna Volcano, which last erupted before Europeans settled in the area.
(8) The two cars just managed to scrape by without touching.
(9) I only learnt Spanish for a year but I can just scrape by in most situations. Sentencedict.com
(10) Borrowing money from friends and relatives helped him to scrape by.
(11) No one would have had me get out of the scrape by implicating an old friend.
(12) When you don't feel like working, it's easy to tackle everything half-heartedly, doing the bare minimum to scrape by.
(13) They say while TVI earns millions of dollars from Canatuan, the Subanens scrape by.