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[ US /ˈɫæk/ ]
[ UK /lˈæk/ ]
VERB
  1. be without
    There is something missing in my jewelry box!
    This soup lacks salt
NOUN
  1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    water is the critical deficiency in desert regions
    for want of a nail the shoe was lost
    there is a serious lack of insight into the problem

How To Use lack In A Sentence

  • A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
  • Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
  • Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
  • A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00. Black Beaver The Trapper
  • On the other hand, a blazer and slacks would probably be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clinton will fight for the American people, and Obama will sit in a racest church for another 20 years where The "rev" is preaching hate, racism, and black seperatism. Clinton: Put down the Blackberry at home
  • Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
  • This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
  • The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say
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