Sentences with phrase «just eking»

Abstract painter Ryan Sullivan, for one, sold a rippling latex canvas done in earth tones that resemble a topographical map for # 98,500 — just eking past his previous auction record.

To put that in perspective, that's the lightest 10 - inch tablet in the world, and it's the thinnest tablet period (just eking by the iPad mini's 7.2 mm frame).

Once an environmentalist of strong standing, Eyrie finds Keely fallen from grace, just eking out an existence in a high - rise apartment in downtown Fremantle on the coast of Western Australia close to Perth.

Cleveland won the Finals by the skin of its teeth with LeBron and Kyrie just eking out enough points.

Also, since it's an OLED display, using darker background apps and wallpapers might just eke out some more battery life from the device.

Likewise, Roku Streaming Stick can just eke out a few milliseconds ahead of Chromecast when starting starting a show or switching from one piece of content to the next.

Not exact matches

By the time Waugh became CEO, Scotia had eked out just a 3 % share of the wealth - management market in Canada, the smallest of the Big Five banks.

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.

Taken together with Starbucks, which leveraged an 8.2 percent increase in sales to $ 12.7 billion and leapt over Subway into the No. 2 ranking behind McDonald's, the top five brands eked out just a 0.3 percent increase in annual sales.

But am I just human enough to not be able to fully comprehend heaven and, therefore, be afraid of saying goodbye to my sweet wife, daughters, friends, homebrewing, crisp fall air, laughing so hard I cry, happy little existence that I've eked out?

Just a note — the word you want is «eke» not «eek».

(Ekes, that is just not right!!).

not just that the motivation is missing but the same weaknesses fans have been talking about for three years are still plain to see... we might even eke a win today but so f ****** what he does nt have a top team that can win shit still

At the AmEx he did just enough to eke out a win, his victory march more of a limp because of bogeys on three of the final five holes.

Giorgio Chiellini, who was at his tenacious best as always (just missing the bloodied bandage around his head), spoke to the media as well about how Juve dug deep to eke out the win.

Boston -LRB--2) is getting just under 50 % of spread tickets but fewer than 25 % of the money, which indicates that the Celtics may be overvalued in this spot after barely eking out a win in overtime of Game 1.

Could Fergie's claim just be frustration at eking so little from a player who promised so much?

One of the many bonuses of pumping hands free is that you can easily and effectively do simple breast compressions to help you eke out just a bit more each session.

But Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is under a federal indictment alleging corruption for a second time, eked out a victory, at just 37 %, because the field contained eight challengers.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders opened up a new line of attack in the Democratic presidential primary yesterday, putting Hillary Clinton on the defensive over her liberal credentials just days after she eked a slim victory in the Iowa caucuses.

Since the population of cells down there is small, most people thought they would just barely be able to eke out a living, that they were organisms with very few capabilities.

Once youâ $ ™ ve completed your reps at that weight, grab a weight that is about â... «less than what you were using, and pump out 10 - 12 more reps.. This «drop set» will allow you to push beyond what you were able to achieve with the higher weight, just when you thought you couldn't eke out any more reps.

Stretch it out with shampoo Shampoos for color - treated hair arent just a gimmick; experts agree that they can help you eke out an extra week or two between dye jobs.

It was touch and go, but I did manage to eke out just enough fabric for the fix!

«Into the Wild» didn't make me want to eke out a living in an abandoned bus, but it did make me yearn — just a little bit — for my younger, less cynical days when there was nothing but open road ahead, and such a journey would not have been out of the realm of possibility.

We just know that it's all starting to eke out.

Although the storyline is a bit muddled, ATL has just enough good moments to eke out a modest recommendation for those interested in the subject matter.

«A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)»

A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)-- a situation from which layer upon layer of all - too - human complications develop.

The first wave of Sundance filmmakers in the»80s had to be purely committed to their craft just to eke out an existence in the homogenous film culture of the decade.

With details of Android 3.0 Honeycomb just starting to eke out in earnest at the show, most tablet makers were instead running customized versions of Android 2.2 or 2.3.

The Permanent Portfolio mutual fund posted an annualized return of 11.8 % over the 10 years ending June 30, and even managed to eke out a small positive gain in 2008, when just about everyone else took a bath.

Lock up my money for 6 - 12 months just to eke out a wretched 1 % annual yield?

Far too many people never do the math, and wind up overpaying for items just to eke out a few extra points.

He is right, just add more pressure and you could eke out a little more.

The headphones are also equipped with «Fast Fuel», allowing you to eke out 2 hours of audio playback with just 5 minutes of charging.

Finally, if you're looking to eke just a little more versatility out of your Chromebook, then a Crouton install is the way to do it.

That's fine if the alternative is your phone dying, but it's not something you want to deal with all the time — just when you're really desperate to eke out a bit more battery.

The capability is there, it just needs to be eked out of it with various tweaks.