How to Use eke out in a Sentence

eke out

verb

• Still, the Dow and S&P 500 fell for the week, and the Nasdaq just barely eked out a gain.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 May 2023
• Can Trae Young avoid the overrated chants and help the Hawks eke out a win?
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• There is still enough sun to eke out another mild day with highs again in the low to mid-60s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• And there are ways to eke out more life from a laptop battery too.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 9 July 2023
• In the first quarter, most bond funds eked out gains, but barely.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• But despite the mix of bravos and but-then-agains in the logbook, when the points were totaled, the Legend eked out the win.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
• Las Vegas was able to get two field goals and a safety in the second half to eke out the win.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
• At the start of the fourth quarter, with the game tied at fifty-one, Clark went on a run, and Iowa held on to eke out a two-point win.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
• That was one of just three hits the Brewers managed to eke out Monday night.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2024
• Ampersand, as a small business, had to eke out a loan to jump into the fray.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• Despite the show’s heavy subject matter, the team managed to eke out some fun on set.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 22 July 2023
• All Gosling can eke out is a small grunt/sigh that will basically knock the air right out of your lungs.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024
• Baltimore needs this game, and the Ravens are proving this season to be a team that finds ways to eke out wins.
  — cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• The GOP gained only nine seats in the 2022 midterms and eked out a narrow five-seat majority in the chamber.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2023
• Los Angeles eked out their first win of the season against the Minnesota Vikings last week.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• Klotz won the first part of the three-part final Head of Household competition of the season, but Bains eked out back-to-back wins in parts two and three.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Bitcoin is set to climb for the fourth month in a row after eking out an April gain, the longest such stretch since a six-month advance through March 2021.
  — Akshay Chinchalkar, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
• Basketball season is in full swing and in a close game, the team that makes the highest percentage of free throws can often eke out the win.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2024
• Ultimately, the shark eked out a win on this one as Under Paris managed 28.7M views.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 June 2024
• The women who’d just begun to eke out an income found their livelihoods threatened again—this time by the police.
  — Vogue, 8 Mar. 2022
• The first is the possibility that Trump ekes out the most votes — and loses the presidency.
  — Jason Willick, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
• Most union members are not breakout stars, and many struggle to eke out an existence in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a gain of less than 0.1%.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• Over the years, Botswana has eked out a little more each time the deal has been renewed with De Beers, which declined to comment for this article.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• And possibly for the producers to eke out a tiny last morsel of conflict to fill another episode.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Europe is in recession, and Japan is projected to eke out just a 1 percent growth rate.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2023
• But once again, the Bucs found a way to eke out another victory, outlasting the host Eagles 28-22.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2021
• That was good enough to eke out a win over the Cardinals (4-8) but the question remains as to how far Herbert can carry the Chargers without a ground game to stand on.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Michael Andretti ran out of fuel on the final lap, opening the door just enough for Mario to catch up and eke out a victory by a mere 0.070 seconds.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 21 June 2023
• Other races have only GOP contenders, so those who eke out wins in the primary election are likely to take positions outright.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024