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Example sentences for "lack"

Lexicographically close words:
lachrymatory; lachrymose; lacing; lacings; laciniata; lackadaisical; lacke; lacked; lackered; lackest
  1. During the time that you remain here you will lack nothing to eat, but you must bear in mind that we are not big capitalists yet, and until we make some money you must suffer a little.

  2. He dwells on his losing employment because of lack of work in the place where he was employed.

  3. He was held in prison to await trial, but powerful influences of the Mafia were set to work and Morello was discharged for lack of evidence.

  4. In the former, the son was really deeply wounded by what he deemed lack of parental affection for his interests.

  5. The duke, too, did not lack in courage but he failed sometimes in order giving, and to say the truth, he behaved himself not so advisedly as many wished because of the king's presence.

  6. But the violence of his character had inspired lack of confidence in his power of achievement, a violence that made people dislike him as Philip with all his faults was never disliked.

  7. If there are no immediate engagements, his mercenaries will abandon him for lack of pay.

  8. There seems to have been no insult offered to the fallen man, no lack of deference in the proceedings.

  9. What you have granted--sometimes more than our request--has always been given so tardily as to prove the lack of good will.

  10. Sigismund's lack of foresight and his prodigality were notorious.

  11. I feel about Lascurain a note of sincerity and a lack of personal aims and ambitions.

  12. Lack of water is a terrible question in Mexico, cursed with irregular rainfalls, and rivers few and far between.

  13. I will work with them and guard their souls from sin, And when they ask me something I will always answer them 'Yes' or 'No' When they lack bread I will divide with them all the bread I have in my house!

  14. No better introduction to the study of the Latin Fathers, their style and diction, could be found than this treatise, which also has no lack of modern interest.

  15. Not here can we complain of lack of inevitableness or homogeneity.

  16. His life and that of the Duchessa di Donatello must lie miles apart, separated both by lack of money and the ocean.

  17. He marvelled idly at the lack of colour in the scene before him.

  18. There is no lack of resources, material or spiritual, for carrying out our half of the assimilation programme.

  19. This is, perhaps, partly because the lack of self-confidence, which so often unsettles the worrier, is peculiarly effective when he has relinquished the security of his accustomed anchorage.

  20. He must realize that if two people whisper they are not necessarily whispering about him, and if they are it is of no consequence, and merely shows their lack of breeding.

  21. Epicurus realized that the apparent inability of the old to acquire new habits is due rather to lack of attention, and to indifference or preoccupation, than to lack of aptitude.

  22. He certainly has the intelligence, for it is among the intelligent that these states are mostly found; he certainly has the will-power, for lack of will-power is not a failing of the obsessed.

  23. Many neglect these methods, not from lack of time or money, but from indisposition.

  24. Courtney says "to all this will undoubtedly be objected the plea of lack of time.

  25. The drawback is the lack of incentive when the novelty has passed.

  26. Labor is badly paid, and, owing to the lack of continuous cropping of the land, it is often left without employment at seasons when employment is most needed.

  27. There is really no lack of food, clothing, building material, land.

  28. He sees clearly as any the incredible flippancy, the blind fury of parties, the lack of great leaders, the plentiful meanness and vulgarity; the labour question beginning to open like a yawning gulf.

  29. But whatever else they may lack they do not lack vitality, initiative, sublimity.

  30. Do not say I am forward, or that I lack pride because I tell this love to thee who have never sought or made sign of desiring to seek me.

  31. Occasionally, owing to haste or lack of time, it may have been forgotten or omitted.

  32. Minnitarri language because of the lack of a Mandan interpreter.

  33. This lack has in part been filled by Mr. Albert Gallatin, whose learned work is in the hands of the publishers.

  34. A lack of altruism has the same outward effect.

  35. The lack gave her face a look of littleness.

  36. I daresay she used to ask questions--without result--long before she could talk, but I am quite sure she was not embittered by the lack of result.

  37. But indeed many mislead others by their appetites, through lack of knowledge.

  38. But a man there is4 who buyeth an idle tale, that in his lack of knowledge he may mislead others from the way of God, and turn it to scorn.

  39. The lack of these underlying muliebral qualities more than counterbalances to not a few Europeans the undoubted vivacity, originality, and freshness of the American woman.

  40. Lack of imagination makes people fail to see the evils that are; makes them fail to realise the good that might be.

  41. Again and again we read about the pronounced worldliness of Fra Filippo's religious paintings, about their lack of spiritual significance and devout feeling.

  42. II Whereas all questions concerning Fra Filippo's artistic education remain largely a matter of conjecture and deduction, there is no lack of documentary material for a fairly accurate reconstruction of his life.

  43. Boisberthelot went on,-- "For lack of a French prince we take one from Brittany.

  44. For lack of thrushes--No: since an eagle is not to be found, we take a crow.

  45. No lack of volunteers ready to lay down their lives: every street furnished a battalion.

  46. It was fairly comfortable, save for the lack of light, fire, bread, and air.

  47. There was no lack of materials, and they proceeded to construct a barricade of this description with clefts for the passage of gun-barrels.

  48. Assuredly it has been for no lack of cause that England has ridden the sea of Armageddon without capsizing.

  49. British record of the genesis of the war, which shows that there was no lack of anticipation of coming events, as far as Downing Street was concerned.

  50. If the pictures appear indistinct, I trust the photography will at least not be criticized as in any respect due to lack of sympathy with the British cause.

  51. I commented on Mrs. Gerard's amazing lack of fatigue after four days and nights of trials and tribulations with terror-stricken compatriots.

  52. Dernburg's lack of manners and tact was commonly said in Berlin to have led to his official demise after less than four years of Cabinet glory.

  53. The Trojan heroism of the army, despite its lack of sweeping victory, will enrich military history for all time.

  54. The Empire suffers from no lack of men; its physical resources are well-nigh inexhaustible.

  55. Let the nation rant itself blue in the face over Labor's "disgraceful lack of patriotism.

  56. But it was in its treatment of news destined for the United States that the Press Bureau most convincingly revealed its lack of imagination.

  57. Men and women knew now that Russia's answer, or lack of answer, whichever it might be, meant war, not peace.

  58. So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine.

  59. Canst thou the conscience lack, To think I shall lack friends?

  60. I told her, and she ceased to be insulting long enough to expostulate on the great impropriety of the proceeding, as well as to explain the total lack of any need of help in Fredericksburg.

  61. I do not remember whether it was Saturday engagements, or Sunday sanctity, or lack of jurisdiction, which barred the Commission from interference; but think they must wait until the fort surgeon sent a requisition.

  62. His right arm suffered for lack of support, and when I knelt to give him nourishment from a spoon, and pray with him that the deliverer would soon come, he always laid that arm over my shoulders.

  63. In this house I started my school, and there were no lack of pupils whose parents were able and willing to pay for their tuition, but ruffians stood before the house and hooted at the "nigger school.

  64. Lack of strength was no reason why a woman should fail in her duty, for when one fell at her post, there was always another to take her place.

  65. I had once been tried on a charge of purloining pantaloons, and been acquitted for lack of evidence; but now, here was the proof!

  66. Two other surgeons were with him, and all three endeavored to persuade him to return to Washington, as his lack of health made it very dangerous, if not quite useless, for him to go to the front.

  67. Mother had lost her husband and four vigorous children; there had been no lack of calomel, and now, when death again threatened, she resolved to conduct the defense on some new plan.

  68. You are blind leaders of the blind, and must all fall into the ditch, destroyed for lack of knowledge!

  69. To the one, life may lack blessing, to the other, death be all gain.

  70. We are a goodly party, and I dare venture to say, shall not lack for amusement during the voyage.

  71. No great advantage to get food cheap in a country so unhealthy that you lack the appetite to eat it.

  72. The common types of epileptics lack some element necessary for complete mental development.

  73. One such may be the lack of adequate preparation on the part of the students in the fundamentals of biology to properly comprehend the import and application of Eugenic facts.

  74. But there may be a lack of properly prepared teachers to present this subject to even properly prepared medical students.

  75. The +Malthusian theory of population+ leads to the conclusion that the population of the majority of countries is held in check by lack of food.

  76. In all countries there is a great lack of truly comparable data from earlier years.

  77. Many women will lack the necessary amount of nerve; but many men lack it also.

  78. Therefore let every one beware of confirmations in favor of nature; let him confirm himself in favor of the Divine; there is no lack of material.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absence; beggary; blank; break; collapse; dearth; decline; defalcation; default; defect; deficiency; deficit; demand; deprivation; destitution; discontinuity; drought; fail; failure; famine; gap; gripe; hiatus; immaturity; impairment; imperfection; impurity; inaccuracy; inadequacy; indigence; insubstantial; interval; lack; lacuna; lag; mediocrity; mendicancy; necessity; need; omission; pauperism; penury; pinch; poverty; privation; require; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; shortcoming; slump; starvation; starve; subtraction; unevenness; want