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Example sentences for "rationed"

Lexicographically close words:
rationalizing; rationall; rationally; rationals; ratione; rationem; rationes; rationibus; rationing; rationis
  1. He never sent me to the tavern for even a drop of wine: what little he brought back from the offering and put in the chest he rationed out so that it lasted him a whole week.

  2. I was rationed out one onion every four days.

  3. Several expressed themselves quite freely, finding fault for being rationed when provisions could now be had, and saying that they thought I ought to go and get something to eat and not have them suffer any more.

  4. We were now all in good health and had, as I understood, willingly agreed to be rationed for a few days, until relief came from Salt Lake City.

  5. No one can have more than two ounces of bread at any meal, and the amount of flour and sugar supplied is strictly rationed to the hotels, according to the number served.

  6. We are rationed on sugar and we do not want to adopt more compulsory rationing than is necessary.

  7. I had found at several places that the military police at outposts were not properly rationed and depended on the military commissariat, which might at any time be moved away.

  8. It was necessary to determine the constitution of the force, its relation to the Deputy Commissioners of districts, and the methods by which it was to be rationed and kept supplied with necessaries.

  9. Magpalítug bugas mais ang arsii, The RCA will sell corn meal on a rationed basis.

  10. All the bits of hard bread, and fresh beef, in all a scanty meal for one person's supper, was produced and rationed out to the twenty-two persons.

  11. Next day, at an early hour, I rode out with Ruyter to hunt, my camp being entirely without flesh, and we having been rationed upon very tough old rhinoceros for several days past.

  12. Massa rationed out de food every week and we usually got a peck of meal.

  13. You see matches are rationed now," I said, "and the few we are allowed run out at once.

  14. Bringing it Home to Him For several months in 1917 matches were rationed in a Y.

  15. Now when Abu Niyyah had appointed the Friday, the King set apart for his guest an apartment and rationed him with liberal rations.

  16. Upon this he set apart for them apartments and rationed them with three cakes of bread and a dish of roast meat[FN#24] and set over them his sentinels dreading lest they fly.

  17. The corps is now attached to our army, Colonel; you were good enough to order them to be rationed before, but I have now an order from the general for them to draw pay and rations the same as the British troops.

  18. Of course they will be rationed while they are here, and will be under my general orders until I hear from Cradock.

  19. This morning the bread was rationed all over the city.

  20. Sooner or later the population will have to be rationed like soldiers, and, if the siege goes on, useless mouths will have to be turned out.

  21. We still pay, he says, the budget of the clergy, as though Bonaparte were still on the throne, instead of having rationed the large appetites and forced every one to live on 1fr.

  22. Since the war broke out, His Majesty has expressed a wish to be rationed like his people.

  23. With so much water all about them it seemed strange to be rationed on water, but on such a packed ship the water supply was a real problem.

  24. She didn't object, for she was sure much hard work and a rationed diet would soon reduce her to the old measurements.

  25. If all fools were rationed there could be no fixed scale.

  26. Presently Mrs. Strang appeared, crimson from the fire, bearing the fishpie and vegetables that were to provide the rationed meal.

  27. Luckily he cared nothing at all about food--though he refused to be rationed by a despotic Government.

  28. They were rationed about as our own men, and from our supplies.

  29. It had now become evident that the army could not be rationed by a wagon train over the single narrow and almost impassable road between Milliken's Bend and Perkins' plantation.

  30. The measures of the second kind are, of course, merely palliative, and it is impossible to overcome “Sukharevka” without insuring the population a certain supply of the rationed foodstuffs.

  31. Only food grains absolutely necessary for feeding their families, on a rationed basis, and for seed purposes should be permitted to be held by the peasants.

  32. If the cavalry to be rationed are on the move, supplies cannot be delivered until a definite resting-point for the night has been reached, usually after dark.

  33. Notwithstanding these several disadvantages, a complete division of Indian Cavalry "in the field" was for the first time in history rationed in Europe, and also for the first time anywhere by means of mechanical transport.

  34. Egypt where our soldiers died uselessly of dysenteric disease because they were rationed with heating beef instead of digestible mutton.

  35. Now of his inexperience the Prince said to him, "We will serve thee;" whereupon his employer rationed him with a scone and a half and went forth leaving him in the Synagogue.

  36. He raised lots of 'bacco and rationed it out to mens, but he never 'lowed chillun to have none 'til dey was big enough to wuk in de fields.


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