live from hand to mouth in a sentence

Examples

1. Companies typically take six months to pay bills, meaning that smaller firms live from hand to mouth.
2. We live from hand to mouth,
3. They lived from hand to mouth in a place where economic conditions were severe even by Soviet standards.
4. In the early days, that meant living from hand to mouth, and I respect their willingness to do that.
5. "We live from hand to mouth, " said Ndlozi, who works part-time at a bank and is married to an insurance clerk.
6. "We tend to live from hand to mouth, from year to year, and, as they say, that's no way to run a railroad,"
7. More ominously for the thousands of small, local nonprofits that live from hand to mouth, 48 percent of respondents said they would " stop,"
8. Although he had many commissions and was regarded as Edinburgh's best portrait painter, he mostly lived from hand to mouth or from commission to commission.
9. We have all taken it too lightly, allowing those who are " not like us " to live from hand to mouth on a day-to-day basis.
10. After all, we always lived from hand to mouth, never looking ahead, spending more when there was something to spend, fitting in somehow when there wasn't.