rationing

Example Sentences

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“Down Victoria Street is Parriss’s sweet shop, but with war rationing, Mr. Parriss doesn’t have much to offer. Neither does the butcher. Don’t know how Mum manages a larder stock, but she does somehow.”

From Literature

There’s a story about someone who’s been rationing their insulin and the downsides of that.

From Los Angeles Times

Like all Cubans, Flores saves water in a tank, rationing it for drinking, cooking, washing and bathing.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rationing measures are being applied mainly to private firms doing NHS work, but multiple NHS hospitals are understood to be affected too.

From BBC

But he said that even rationing might not be enough to prevent a disaster.

From BBC