rationed
Example Sentences
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It was priced at thousands of dollars for a season of monthly shots and rationed, sensibly, to the highest-risk babies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The fact that marginal cost pricing would lead to reselling, creating windfall profits for anyone lucky enough to get a rationed ticket, does not alter the principle.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
“Offal wasn’t rationed during the war, and my mother resorted to the sort of food she’d eaten as a child: tripe and onions, brains, tongue and braised rabbit,” he told the Independent in 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
During the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, convenience stores were used to distribute rationed face masks nationwide.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
It wasn’t even rationed, like sleep or bread.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
