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hand-to-mouth造句
1. Low wages mean a hand-to-mouth existence for many people. 2. The worst-paid live a hand-to-mouth existence without medical or other benefits. 3. He lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London. 4. Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence. 5. Never forget how many Chinese live hand-to-mouth. 6. Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning. 7. Hand-to-mouth buying. Computer screen itself can only have three kinds of small light spots in different colors. 8. "His family is hand-to-mouth, so we took it on ourselves, " Choudhury said. 9. For farmers, a hand-to-mouth existence is made worse by routine land seizures and orders to work without pay for the military. 10. Many native tribes lead a hand-to-mouth existence, content to have food for one day at a time. 11. From being a poor, struggling, little hand-to-mouth enterprise, it had become celebrated, and overcrowded with customers. 12. In Waterloo, Li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student. 13. As always, this winter most labourers will live a hand-to-mouth existence until the grapes are ready for thinning in late August. 14. Therefore, in the bleak aftermath of war, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London. 15. Both countries are paying much more for debt today and longer term investors are remaining elusive, thus Italy and Spain are still living on a hand-to-mouth existence. 16. "At the very least, destocking has run its course, and consumers' hand-to-mouth buying is eating into broader domestic inventories," Nicholas Snowdown, an analyst at Barclays Capital, said. 17. He told us how he had been asking God for just the right wife, because he thought he could see a way for the next generation to escape the hand-to-mouth existence of the tenant farmer. 18. Since the majority of the population lives in a hand-to-mouth fashion in which it is a struggle to survive, the common man has no time to think about the government.