Below you will find example sentences with "ends meet". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Ends Meet in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: ends
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.3 words

Words in this phrase

ends meet

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • ends can mean: plural of end Frequent word
  • meet can mean: To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 0 start, 7 middle, 13 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

to make ends meet 4× and make ends meet 1× of making ends meet 1× parents make ends meet 1× people make ends meet as many 1× t make ends meet 1× time making ends meet in biden 1× to make ends meet a common 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after the eighth 1× as prices have 1× aside from what 1× balancing a healthy 1× but half of 1× by nearly every 1×

Common sentence endings:

make ends meet 7× making ends meet 2× a little easier 1× across the country 1× an auto shop 1× at the laundry 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

order 3× people 3× making 3× needs 3× work 2× life 2× demands 2× working 2× help 2× workers 2× conditions 2× enough 2×

Related phrases

tight ends dual meet

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

endangered species end zone encouraging people encourage people encourage everyone encore wire

Just after it in the phrase index:

enemy forces enemy lines energy bills energy consumption energy costs energy daily

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

dual meet

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "ends meet" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 24.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as to make ends meet, and make ends meet, order, people and making stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with tight ends and dual meet, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with ends meet

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

But I had to make ends meet. (7 words)

Like, you know, trying to make ends meet. (8 words)

For decades, Angel's core focus was making ends meet. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

Here are 5 ways to live within your means if you want to start feeling less comfortable with what you spend and learn how to cut back on other things in order to make ends meet a little easier. (39 words)

Listing one of the myths, he said to laughter: 'Everybody needs to get a flatmate; everybody needs to work more hours to make ends meet; and young adults should stay at home because of the rental crisis. (37 words)

He said Navajo leadership struggles to figure out how to help people make ends meet, as many tell him about not having enough money for groceries or to wash their clothes at the laundry. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

Balancing a healthy work and life schedule gets tossed to the side in order to meet managers’ demands and make ends meet.

After the eighth grade, he was out working in the cotton fields to help his parents make ends meet.

Aside from what workers called unsafe conditions, employees said their weekly pay is not enough to make ends meet, a common plight of minimum-wage workers across the country.

As prices have risen and wages mostly stagnated, working people are finding it challenging to make ends meet.

But half of the Guyanese population scrap around to make ends meet, with an oppressive oil contract, and a government seeking to silence them for objecting to its provisions and conditions.

But I had to make ends meet.

But some, like Plas Madoc in my constituency, don’t get council funding and have to make ends meet in other ways.

By nearly every metric, life in B.C. is getting more expensive, with people in every corner of the province feeling the growing stress of making ends meet.

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Christie was asked by a young mother why the United States was financing the war in Ukraine when regular Americans are having a hard time making ends meet in Biden’s economy.

Employee demands for more hours are also understandable given the needs of those struggling to make ends meet, but even this can destroy a business whose owner is trying to control labor costs.

For decades, Angel's core focus was making ends meet.

For this hustler caught between two cultures, the struggle to make ends meet is real.

Here are 5 ways to live within your means if you want to start feeling less comfortable with what you spend and learn how to cut back on other things in order to make ends meet a little easier.

He said Navajo leadership struggles to figure out how to help people make ends meet, as many tell him about not having enough money for groceries or to wash their clothes at the laundry.

He worked odd jobs (“anything I could to make ends meet,” he said), before getting a steady mechanic gig in an auto shop.

However, British farmers insist a far bigger issue is soaring energy costs, which have forced growers to switch off greenhouses as they desperately try to make ends meet.

It added that "Lucie, who had been with the company for a decade, quit because she couldn't make ends meet".

It primarily focuses on her childhood as a sharecropper who had to give up schooling in order to make ends meet and her decision to run away from home.

Like, you know, trying to make ends meet.

Listing one of the myths, he said to laughter: 'Everybody needs to get a flatmate; everybody needs to work more hours to make ends meet; and young adults should stay at home because of the rental crisis.

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