Odd, when I tried "eke" it gave me the Turkish verb "ekmek.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: UNIVERSAL CONJUGATOR.] Reference

I looked up the Standard English, but rarely-used, verb "eke".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: UNIVERSAL CONJUGATOR.] Reference

Republicans eked out some gains in other states, including my own North Carolina (and I do mean "eke").    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner] Reference

With this practice Râmânuja's interpretation, on the other hand, fully agrees; for, according to him, the 'eke' are the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference

A lusti touch, a good word eke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference

Bears eke out an ugly win against the lowly Lions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Farmer: March This Wednesday to Help Us Put More Cops on Chicago's Streets] Reference

And HuffPo has finally started to eke out a profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arianna’s Answer] Reference

Or eke that that kingdom henceforward should choose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

This eke have I heard say, that he, the fell monster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

With the lives of slain foemen, and slain eke was Finn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

The mere fact of my thinking of it causes me much ill and eke alarms me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

But France's CAC-40 managed to eke a small gain, closing up 0.1% at 3670.36.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Data Cap European Stocks] Reference

They are said to resort to many ingenious expedients to eke out the allowance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

Thanks only to another blooper on the Chelsea side did Man U manage to eke out the crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for a Hero] Reference

Thus "they eat, and eke they swear;" vowing all the time that they "will horribly revenge.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

Technology would help eke out the hardest-to-reach reserves, but the curve would still fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Energy Squeeze] Reference

For a very long time M. Chebe had sought a place which would enable him to eke out their slender income.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And now, you know, it's just a few that are still out there and are able to, you know, to eke out a living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Billie, 'With Love From Dee Dee'] Reference

The environmental community mobilized to help secure the last few votes needed to eke out a 219-212 victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Lashof: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Lessons From Senate Climate Fail] Reference

Morocco, where they strive to eke out a scant existence from the arid plains of that parched and burning clime.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

In the garden behind the cottage vegetables were grown to eke out supplies, and it was one of the tasks of young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

Ghorbandarrah, a smaller village of mostly Pashtun herdsmen who eke out a living on the high pastures, is Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale Of Two Villages] Reference

When the heaven is as brass and makes no sign, men are thrown back on themselves to eke out their small stores of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

But she needs to do more than just eke out a victory or two tonight to make the claim that Obama is somehow unelectable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight, Tonight] Reference

Victorious bar owners eke out the rocket fuel of choice, by adulterating it with ersatz vodka from Stuttgart and Munich.    From Wordnik.com.  [E (novel extract)] Reference

People trade whatever they can get their hands on to eke out a living -- much as their peasant forebears did for centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Survive In The Sour Cream Economy] Reference

He saw that if he were saved the buying of the groceries for himself, he could eke out his small hoard till after Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

Regarding rain, I'm fairly confident we'll eke out a dry day, with the chance of a shower or thundershower around 10% or less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forecast: Weather less scary for Friday the 13th] Reference

Stakeholders ferociously trying to eke out every last advantage, and in doing so, destroying the very thing they all have a stake in.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Happens When Congress Fails to Do Its Job?] Reference

 They would use their abilities to save innocents from fires set by evildoers, eke out daring rescues from various impossible traps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference

To rural county commissioners hungry for development, drilling, mining and grazing are the only ways to eke out a living from the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Utah, The New West Trumps The Old] Reference

In your racing thoughts, you eke out a laugh, for in trying so hard you have forgotten everything you had read about evading the riptide.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference

This public sector drag on the recovery could hardly come at a worse time, just as the private sector is starting to eke out some growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Budget Crunch Hits Atlantic City Hard] Reference

But Avastin is also one of the most expensive of a new generation of anti-cancer medications that only eke out a few extra months of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA considers revoking approval of Avastin for advanced breast cancer] Reference

So, our exercise got me thinking about products that encourage wastefulness, and the little tricks I employ to eke out a bit more mileage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't throw out that toothpaste tube so fast] Reference