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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of eke.

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Examples

  • I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I opened my mouth to say something, but before a word eked out, Bridgette dragged me away and into a large room with a multitude of arched windows.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • "eked" is rather an odd verb to describe a three million vote margin.

    Local Results of Federal Election at cvillenews.com 2004

  • DHNS: Karnataka eked out a draw against Andhra in the KSCA South Zone under-14 cricket tournament here on Monday.

    WN.com - Articles related to Drought-prone districts on the rise 2010

  • Recently only three airlines that I know of actually kind of eked out a profit.

    CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2008 2008

  • Looking back now, I could have made bogey and still won, but fortunately I had a good tee shot and pitching wedge into the green, and kind of eked my putt up there and tapped it in. "

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • While the landmark stock offering eked out a small profit of $54 million for taxpayers and began the government's exit from the insurer 2½ years after its record bailout, the stock fell 4% on Wednesday to make it the worst first-day performer of U.S. follow-on stock offerings over $1 billion.

    Mideast Trembles, Joplin Reels, Race Takes Shape 2011

  • AIG Offering : American International Group and the U.S. Treasury Department sold $8.7 billion in AIG stock, in an offering that eked out a small profit for taxpayers and began the government's exit from the bailed-out insurer.

    House to Vote to Raise Debt Ceiling 2011

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