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rationed

[ US /ˈɹæʃənd, ˈɹeɪʃənd/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈæʃənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. distributed equitably in limited individual portions
    got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar

How To Use rationed In A Sentence

  • Instead of being a right, walking has become a privilege to be carefully rationed.
  • Petrol, clothing, meat, sugar and other foods were rationed by coupons.
  • Motorists will be rationed to thirty litres of petrol a month.
  • During the war we had a gig with a cart horse and used to bowl along around the north-west end of town - great transport when petrol was rationed.
  • People were rationed to one egg a week.
  • Do you remember when petrol was rationed to five gallons a week?
  • It is also illogical that justice should be rationed: after two unsuccessful reviews, a team can suffer a gross miscarriage without any recourse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fuel was rationed during the war.
  • The captain rationed the remaining water out among the shipwrecked passengers.
  • The fact of the matter is that Canadian health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate, and because of this, money is rationed through waiting lists and inadequate equipment.
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