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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.
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  • 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.
  • In an effort to reduce the numbers of cars on the road, licence plates are rationed.
  • Tech came after Weinke hard with a variety of blitzes that resulted in four sacks and rationed Florida State to 30 yards rushing.
  • got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar
  • 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
  • Tea was derationed in 1952 and the sales management (not unreasonably) thought there was going to be an increase in sales as a result.
  • Clothing was rationed in just the same way as food and Mother was always altering my clothes, patching, turning collars and darning the darns on my socks.
  • People were rationed to a pound of meat a week.
  • Most foods were rationed and what you could buy, even with ration coupons, was not much - about one egg a week per person, for example, almost no meat at all, very little fish.
  • Ann rationed out the cake between the children.
  • Sugar was rationed to 1 kg. per family.
  • After the four hundred grams of war-rationed bread in Ivanovo, Leningrad seemed a gastronomic heaven. A Mountain of Crumbs
  • They've been supplying their established costumers with rationed amounts of vaccine, depending on their needs, and are just ramping up supply enough now to meet the needs of new customers.
  • Bread was rationed to one loaf per family.
  • By the winter artillery ammunition had been rationed to one or two shells per gun per day.
  • These foods had to be strictly rationed.
  • They've been supplying their established costumers with rationed amounts of vaccine, depending on their needs, and are just ramping up supply enough now to meet the needs of new customers.
  • Tyres and tubes were rationed but could be purchased on the black market at exorbitant prices.
  • Electricity supplies were rationed because of frozen coal stocks, difficulties on the roads and labour unrest.
  • Food is not rationed and unpalatable, but available in mind-boggling varieties and mouth-watering flavours at affordable prices.
  • In the case of the Working for Families package, the government is giving us back rationed amounts of our own money.
  • But if the space on the roads is not priced it will be rationed by queues instead. Times, Sunday Times
  • Old women were rationed to 14 kilograms of grain a month.
  • Food is not rationed and unpalatable, but available in mind-boggling varieties and mouth-watering flavours at affordable prices.
  • Their only curveballs thrown here are Beach Boys harmonies and the same augmented chord progression, and even these twists are rationed.
  • He went after them with loaded words: They "discriminated," "rationed care . . . denied coverage" and were "bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor. From Post-Partisan to Most Partisan
  • Its new porcine casing is much in demand and is having to be rationed to customers.
  • He also remembers devastating droughts, when ‘we were rationed to 10 gallons a day.’
  • Cigarettes are rationed
  • Government advisers say red or processed meat should be rationed to no more than 500g a week. The Sun
  • After aligning his Pulitzer-winning novel The Hours to Mrs Dalloway and Virginia Woolf, Cunningham makes a mistake in linking By Nightfall to Joyce, continues Mars-Jones: "If he had chosen softer models he would cut a better figure, the contrast being smaller … Joyce would have begrudged By Nightfall the rationed reading time failing eyes he gave so willingly to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
  • Paint colours on unadorned pine furniture are rationed to misty greys, blues, creams and primrose yellow.
  • Our old landlord rationed us to two picture-hooks, and in the main room only.
  • While people trapped in the Convention Center had no water and those in the Superdome were rationed to a pint a day, the USS Bataan waited for federal orders just offshore.
  • The captain rationed the remaining water out among the shipwrecked passengers.
  • Since any government can only beg, borrow or steal so much subsidized bread, this alimentary welfare effectively creates artificial scarcities and informal markets that can gouge consumers who want more than their rationed quota. Egypt's Backward Turn
  • He sent him to Bombay to arrange for the release of the strictly rationed newsprint.
  • People were rationed to one egg a week.
  • Instead, stocks are running out and will have to be rationed, leaving roads perilous. The Sun
  • There were fears that the three-day meet would literally strip York bare of (still-rationed) food and drink.
  • Tea and sugar were scarce and were rationed during the war.
  • Old women were rationed to 14 kilograms of grain a month.
  • Now, some of the poorer folk cannot afford to pay for butchers 'meat, they are contented with horseflesh, which is not yet rationed, and are willing to sell their ration cards. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
  • Brigid didn't understand it all, but because of some health problem Bob was strictly rationed with his daily input of liquid.
  • But many more in the city of nine million people hunker down, lining up for rationed water and storing it in pails and tubs as the city's water supply was cut off.
  • The ends, along with tackles, rationed Auburn to 43 yards rushing on 36 carries in USC's 23-0 win.
  • Tea was also rationed, but important foods such as bread, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, and fish were not.
  • Swashbuckling forward play which illuminated the gloomy wasteland of the National League has been rationed to tantalising glimpses.
  • Bread was rationed to one loaf per family.
  • As food was gradually derationed - it was completely derationed only in about 1956-public health started to improve and, mercifully, life expectancy began increasing.
  • Carefully we rationed out about 13 milliliters each and then made a small toast for Christmas.
  • When they visited Britain after the war, they lit up a monochrome world where food and petrol were still rationed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tea and sugar were scarce and were rationed during the war.
  • He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed
  • 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.
  • Calculation How is food to be rationed - on the journey; expedition; during the siege?
  • Their food and water supplies were dangerously low and the elf rationed it harshly.
  • Beer is rationed to the slaves building the Egyptian pyramids.
  • Maybe it stems from my experiences in secondary education when all writing materials were strictly rationed.
  • Herring was one of the few foods that were not rationed during the war.
  • An impoverished, rationed, war-weary continent looked after the lost. Times, Sunday Times
  • The handcrafted candy box frames a scene of a boy sculpting the foil wrappers of rationed chocolates into goblets.
  • Public schools are bad, wages are low, strikes and illegal land seizures are increasing, unemployment and crime are high, jails are horribly overcrowded, and electrical power (think air conditioning) is stingily rationed.
  • The department has "carry-over larvacide" from last year that will be rationed throughout the summer, he said. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • Staples such as bread, rice and tea are already being rationed.
  • Paint colours on unadorned pine furniture are rationed to misty greys, blues, creams and primrose yellow.
  • Chips and ice cream will be rationed to one or two servings a week.
  • Sugar was rationed to 1 kg. per family.
  • He took up with a girl who, as well as carnal favours, supplied him with rationed beer and contraband Craven As.
  • Shoppers crowded into downtown stores, snapping up once - rationed consumer goods.
  • The soldiers were rationed to one litre of water each per day.
  • The continuous heartbeat rhythm that tells you your experiences are now rationed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cotton and cloth are being rationed out now.
  • Not all the natural produce picked in Nelson was rationed.
  • In many areas, treatments such as hip operations are already being rationed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Elective services are being severely rationed around the country - with no debate.
  • They also say patients are at the mercy of the so-called postcode lottery, in which treatments are available in some postal zones but not others. linkGovernment rationed healthcare. Archive 2006-02-01
  • But if the space on the roads is not priced it will be rationed by queues instead. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bread was rationed during the siege of the city
  • Cotton and cloth are being rationed out now.

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