"existence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They learned to live a frugal existence, caring for the injured, endeavouring to ease the way for the dying.
- Until 1947 he worked in forestry, It was a frugal existence, sometimes he was forced to live on nettle soup.
- He led a remarkably frugal existence but his idiosyncrasies, which embraced the recycling of cigar butts, were from preference rather than parsimony.
- Citizens eked out a frugal existence, for the luxury that had characterized the days of David and Solomon was no more.
- Being without private wealth or income, she led a frugal existence.
- He stays at an all-male hostel and maintains an almost frugal existence.
- Alexis, the son of a distinguished Roman, fled his father's house on his wedding night and sustained a frugal and religious existence for 17 years.
- Irrigators were in this way condemned to a frugal existence from the start.
- He lived a frugal existence, his only source of income being a £20-a-week retainer he received from Island Records.
- Still, despite her now frugal existence, she pressed the point.
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