lacking

How To Use lacking In A Sentence

• The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
• Every fifteen minutes a train made its appearance, tooting and clacking, regular as clockwork.
• Also, the kind of good governance needed for a long term regional vision was lacking.
• Despite his excitement, there are few things Ignaciuk finds lacking in his life in Bulgaria.
• Books in digital format, also known as e-books, can be read on devices lacking the power and screen space to afford a regular Web browser.
• It was seldom spectacular, lacking the Van Gogh-like, wild-eyed artistry of Cunningham, but it worked.
• Lacking auditory and visual cues, the e-mail message or newsgroup post can be productively ambiguous in tone.
• Lethargic and lacking self-confidence, he was a quiet dreamer, with interests in theology, art history, and oriental religions.
• Colours were good, if none too subtle, but poor contrast made for murky dark scenes with objects lacking depth. Times, Sunday Times
• The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction