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Example Sentences
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The impact of funding cuts has already led to the closure of mother and baby clinics in Afghanistan, and reductions in food rations for displaced people in Sudan.
From BBC
Nearly 800 million Indians, he notes, now rely on free rations.
From BBC
He had finished eating his rations, but he was still hungry.
From Literature
In his testimony, Mohammed said meals in the prison are “extremely insufficient,” going on to describe meager rations with “tiny pieces of bread” and “undercooked, dry rice.”
From Los Angeles Times
He also packed six braised eggs, a favorite snack that he calls his “trail rations.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
