The phrase "meager existence" means living a life with very little, lacking in basic needs or having a limited amount of resources to survive or thrive.
Sentences with «meager existence»
Corporations control who lives and who dies from the upper floors of a gleaming tower called Heaven while the poor scrounge and scrape out meager existences in the ghettos below. (thatvideogameblog.com)
Most people can't simply «relax and take it easy» because they never do enough to free themselves from the meager existence that comes as a result of mediocre actions. (entrepreneur.com)
All this was just a small part of the party that cost at least $ 1 million in a nation where just about everyone ekes out a meager existence. (cnbc.com)