Sample Sentences forhand-to-mouth (auto-selected)
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The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."† (source)
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"Tata Nzolo!" we sing, and I wonder what new, disgusting sins we commit each day, holding our heads high in sacred ignorance while our neighbors gasp, hand to mouth.† (source)
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We landed on a world already seeded by the poor buggers who'd gone indigenie two centuries before and were living hand to mouth and cudgel to brain wherever they could.† (source)
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The only ghosts I let in were local ones, the smoky traces of people I knew and the dinge of my own somber shadow, New York ghosts in every case, the old loud Bronx, hand-to-mouth, spoken through broken teeth—the jeer, the raspberry fart.† (source)
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Before our marriage, she had moved in circles of relative wealth and comfort, a life very different from the often hand-to-mouth existence of the freedom fighter.† (source)
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But what help are you going to be to these people on Brewster while you're living hand-to-mouth on file-clerk jobs waiting for a revolution?† (source)
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Magdalena gave birth to a baby girl, Amantina, and for years they lived hand to mouth.† (source)
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She'd been living hand-to-mouth in a cardboard lean-to a few blocks from the seawall when she was picked up.† (source)
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Gollum watched every morsel from hand to mouth, like an expectant dog by a diner's chair.† (source)
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Now you have to understand that twenty pennies might be a good bit of money for some little ragamuffin troupe living hand-to-mouth.† (source)
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I'm tired of living hand to mouth.† (source)
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As Clyde pictured this uncle, he must be a kind of Croesus, living in ease and luxury there in the east, while here in the west—Kansas City—he and his parents and his brother and sisters were living in the same wretched and hum-drum, hand-to-mouth state that had always characterized their lives.† (source)
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The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation.† (source)
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Just because I'm filthy, because I wear such rags, roving round the country, living hand-to-mouth.† (source)
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After a couple of months, I was living pretty much hand to mouth.† (source)
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We live from hand to mouth, as you can see ....there is no wealth here, such as your goods might have brought.† (source)
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