Ration
ration (verb) - when everyone is given only a limited share of some scarce thing (water ration, food ration)
rations (noun) - your limited share
strictly rationed
a weekly ration
rationed to
meagre rations
subsistence rations
could not make do on their rations
run out of rations
pooling rations and take turns cooking meals
she never seems to run out of rations, bless her
not given enough rations
getting short rations
get double rations
find the emergency rations
our emergency rations ran out
emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water
they've stopped your rations
paid for your rations so entitled to them
food rationed
fuel rationed
ration credit
credit rationing
calorie intake dropped with rationing to achieve weight loss
ration your time properly!
rationed them strictly, just as if we were in prison
short of almost all the basic commodities of life, everything was rationed
raising the price of state rationed food grain and oil for urban residents
some items were in short supply and had to be rationed
there's rationing but there's also the black market
all high cost drugs are already rationed in hospitals
delicious fresh salmon became part of the black economy
all hosiery was rationed to members of the public
even butter was rationed
attacked by pirates and virtually ran out of rations
try to ration the pain into manageable portions
with a minimum of emergency rations, we had eaten most of what we had
Example sentences:
* We were all rationed but we, we everybody got their fair share.
* I knew that in 1945 they could not make do on their rations.
* They've stopped your rations.
* She never seems to run out of rations, bless her.
* After all, they had paid for their rations, they were entitled to them.
* It was ironic that now everybody in our district had plenty of money for food they couldn't obtain it because everything was rationed.
* Famine at home did not deter the Tsars from exporting grain, Stalin took a similarly hard-nosed approach, rationed consumption at home and sold abroad for the sake of political influence and foreign exchange.
* Petrol was so strictly rationed in wartime that bikes were always in demand.
* The deteriorating economy prompted an announcement that all foods would be rationed and there would be restrictions on consumption of fuel and electricity.
* EC milk quotas, which since their imposition in 1984 have seen milk production fall by 20 per cent, mean that supply to the manufacturing industry is rationed.
* I had a room to myself but, because fuel was rationed, there was no heating in it, and so in my time off I was forced to sit with Mr and Mrs Webster.
* They wouldn't have to pull in their belts, they wouldn't have to eke it out and ration themselves because there wasn't enough, it was an abundant harvest!
* Even the people who receive grain are hardly well fed, the ration is 2.5 kilos of grain per family per day, and a family could have 10 members.
* Food was rationed and anything not on ration was in great demand such as wild rabbits.
* For Jack, catering is a very satisfying part of being a prison officer, but he does have dissatisfactions: I don't think the rations are enough and there isn't enough variety.
* Faced with this excess demand, the authorities had to ration credit.
* When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
* Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water.
* Owing to Penguin Book's prolific output during 1918 and 1939, the period which formed the baseline from which paper ration allowances were calculated, it had more paper than most at its disposal during the war years.
* Such arguments are themselves spurious since general practitioners are able to ration their workload despite potential demand by controlling access through measures such as rapid consultations, short surgery hours, or other barriers to visits.
* It was six hours since they had shared their meagre ration of black rice, boiled as usual in a rusting can on the communal fire inside the barrack hut.
* If you are allowing yourself a daily ration of alcohol, allow these calories in addition to a minimum calories' worth of food and milk from the regular menu.
* No more rations until the storm blows over!
* There are many ways of categorizing activities so as to ration your time properly.
* In nineteen forty one the use of silk stockings was banned, and by nineteen forty two all hosiery was rationed to members of the public.
* Fresh salmon and freshwater fish were not rationed but were price fixed and like game and poultry, usually became part of the black economy.
* All high cost drugs are already rationed in hospitals through drug and therapeutics committees and clinical pharmacy services.
* With the increasing emphasis on provision of housing and transport outside the state, these goods too are increasingly distributed and rationed.
* More importantly, when credit is tight they find available funds rationed to large borrowers.
* This means that airspace had to be rationed and licensed, and pirate TV is not a very viable possibility.
* Some items were in short supply, like tyres and petrol, and had to be rationed, but there was little real deprivation, and there was always the black market.
* The year when Europe was still heavily rationed, and short of almost all the basic commodities of life.
* I don't think either of us likes it very much, but it's part of the image, so we bought a packet of Gauloises in yellow paper on the first day of the Great Famine, and have rationed them strictly, just as if we were in prison.
* The government announced on April 24 that it was raising the price of state rationed food grain and oil for urban residents from May 1.
* Because so many people in the West eat such a large proportion of their daily calories in the form of refined sugary and starchy foods, it was found that, when these foods were strictly rationed, daily calorie intake usually automatically dropped sufficiently to achieve weight loss.
* Although Burma is an oil producer, national lassitude and the lack of a desire for development ensure a leisurely extraction, and petrol is rationed.
* In the case itself, a man was arrested for having soap flakes (a rationed article) with him as he cycled home.
* Estimates say that as much as half of available rationed goods are left unsold.
* I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop, and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen, and ten minutes on the hour.
* As for the time investment, planning the layout, preparing the plot by digging and manuring, sowing the seeds and watering those crops that needed extra moisture were all carried out well within the weekly ration of 60 minutes.
* Other demands included replacement of the currency by ration coupons, extension of military service from two years to 10, compulsory uniforms for all citizens and penalties for looking gloomy.
* I gave her my butter ration at breakfast one morning in return for her address.
* It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban, she had saved her day's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple, her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better.
* This time the supervision was stricter, and it became more difficult for me to pass my butter ration on to someone else, to pour Ovaltine down the sink behind the matron's back, or to dispose of extra food by means of the lavatory.
* Moving illegally means the migrant is not entitled to ration tickets and housing, also they lose other citizen rights.
* He also became a familiar weekend guest with friends like the Morleys, the Reads and the Richmonds, although his other duties were such that he was careful to ration the amount of time spent in this way: two weekends a month tended to be enough for him.
* Around four million barrels (660,000 tonnes) of oil were being burned each day in March 1991, nearly three times the pre-war Kuwait output and almost 10 per cent of the world's daily ration.
* The message had been that the reception was for the ticket agencies, and the cast were requested to ration themselves to one glass of wine each.
* They said they would not let me back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat.
* Should he ration the number of pages he read per day or should he just read the book straight through?
* He needed far more than the normal ration of two parents, each with only one identity card apiece.
* A delivery man from central stores had delivered the official ration of battered furniture and a communications unit with office equipment, stationery and the basic materials for preparing police tea.
* The fundamental problem with state-owned industries is that they are rationed capital.
Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand.
* It is either going to be physically rationed or price rationed… prices are too low anyway
* Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market.
* Gasoline had been rationed since 1978, when oil output was reported so low that domestic needs could not be met.
* From then all visiting time at the hospital was rationed.
* Some plants need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time.
* He thrust a mess tin full of steak and kidney into my hand, and with a scowl on his face he remarked, After this lot, Piper, we are back to the usual cr*p, unless something special turns up, like cooks and normal rations.
For a time after liberation the Palestinians got no food or fuel rations.
People were more preoccupied with rumours about an imminent sharp reduction in food rations than by the speech of the Fuhrer.
* Often, we would disturb huge salmon, red-dressed for spawning, and I suspect that during the days of the POW camp, salmon were a frequent supplement to meagre wartime rations.
* Single people or couples living alone were encouraged to join a cookery pool, saving fuel by pooling rations and take it in turns to cook meals for other people in the group.
* Ace, find the emergency rations and the patch-up kit.
Almost all food is now legally available only to those with ration books.
* It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population, meat, bacon and butter were the last things to be freed.
* Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot's vitamin ration.
* Been living on daddy's field rations.
* Cornelius got double rations.
* The military ready-to-eat rations, which are the only sort of food dropped, are better than nothing but are inappropriate for sharing in the community.
* Len Daniels was attacked by pirates and virtually ran out of rations, but he says he'd do it all again.
* This fact was disastrous to us, as we had only brought with us just enough food for a one night camping trip, with a minimum of emergency rations, and we had eaten most of what we had.
* Slowly, trying to ration the pain into manageable portions, I slid my hand out again, and then after a while, hardly believing it, I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also, and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow .
