bread and water

Example Sentences

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At the front of the room stood the bishop, who blessed the bread and water in Spanish before passing the trays around for the congregation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

"During the day, people try to look for essential items such as bread and water, and at night people try to stay alive," she said.

From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2023

Hospitals were on the verge of losing electricity, threatening the lives of thousands of patients, and hundreds of thousands of people searched for bread and water.

From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is "subsisting on bread and water" in prison, according to his lawyer.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2023

Yet the words he spoke were no great matters but had to do only with simple things, bread and water and weather and sleep.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin