comfortable, decent, good, honest
He makes a good living as a builder.

meagre/meager
She eked out a meagre/meager living as an artist's model.

earn, make
Her dream was to earn her living as a singer.

eke out, scrape (esp. BrE), scrape together (esp. BrE), scratch
They were forced to scratch a living by selling things on the streets.

do sth for
He asked what I did for a living.

provide
Ten acres provides a decent living for a rural family.

Living is used with these nouns:
accommodation, animal, arrangement, artist, being, cell, composer, condition, corpse, creature, death, descendant, donor, entity, expense, faith, flesh, hell, image, legend, mammal, memorial, museum, nightmare, organism, proof, quarter, relative, room, soul, space, species, specimen, standard, testament, tissue, tradition, wage, will, writer