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US
/ˈɫæk/
]
[ UK /lˈæk/ ]
[ UK /lˈæk/ ]
VERB
-
be without
There is something missing in my jewelry box!
This soup lacks salt
NOUN
-
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!)
- On the other hand, a blazer and slacks would probably be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
- This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
- 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
- Stated income loans only deserve the moniker "liar loans" because they were abused by banks and given to borrowers who lacked the income to qualify full doc. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806