Sample Sentences forration (editor-reviewed)
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Gasoline was rationed during the 1970s oil embargo.rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
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Military rations are nutritionally balanced.rations = fixed portions of food
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During the Second World War, products such as food and gasoline were rationed in the United States, so more resources could be devoted to the war effort.rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
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Bread was rationed during the siege of the city.rationed = restricted in the amount people could have
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Most rationing is done through price, but that doesn't work very well in emergency health care.rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have when more is wanted than is available
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We've been using too much electricity and have now exceeded our ration. (source)ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
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It's real bakery bread, not the flat, dense loaves we make from our grain rations. (source)rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted
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When it comes to me, you'd rather smoke a whole ration, wouldn't you? (source)ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
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They were too busy rationing their strength to fight each other.† (source)
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Randy had carefully rationed salt since he was shocked, in July, to discover how few pounds were left. (source)rationed = restricted the amount used of something
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In the evenings she cooks for him, hoping to please, with the unrationed, remarkably unblemished sugar, flour, rice, and salt she had written about to her mother in her very first letter home.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrationed means not and reverses the meaning of rationed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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If I had gone straight home, if I had gone out to get our rations with my mother and father, things might have turned out very differently than they did. (source)rations = fixed amounts of food given regularly
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I was dreadfully hungry and swallowed my ration on the spot. (source)ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
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We'd become experts at rationing out calories.† (source)
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Mama used it too, sometimes, for cooking, because electricity was rationed now.† (source)
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Don't you want them to know you can get extra rations? (source)rations = portions of food
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