rationed
Example Sentences
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After the second world war, sugar remained rationed in Britain for several years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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
On the island of about 9.6 million people, diesel sales are now suspended and gasoline sales are drastically rationed.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
For the first time in Jack’s life, food was rationed.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
