How to Use ration in a Sentence

ration

1 of 2 noun

• The horse was fed its ration of oats.
• The soldiers were given their rations for the day.
• Most Gazans live in refugee camps and rely on U.N. rations.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Union regiment had not moved in three days, and the men had only three days of rations left.
  — Robert Pushkar, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• The migrants were offered three meals a day, but the rations were meagre.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Using the lunar module as a lifeboat, the crew stretched the rations that remained.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• But in a split second, a scuffle broke out and a few people made off with all the rations.
  — Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
• But the bride was allowed 100 extra ration coupons for her trousseau.
  — Danica Kirka, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• Others were brusque, stingier with the rations — sometimes days with just a piece of bread.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• When the men received a ration of whiskey, Comstock refused to drink the spirit.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• The state still is trying to ration tests even though demand has dropped in recent days.
  — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
• To get the material for her satin dress, Elizbaeth used ration coupons.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
• In Wilson’s honor, the hobbyist opens and heats up a beef and rice ration from 1964.
  — Rayna Rossitto, Vulture, 13 June 2023
• The country was not in any acute danger of needing to ration supplies.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2022
• The cuts reduced the value of rations to about 27 cents per day, according to the UN human rights agency.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 7 July 2023
• Kentucky ranks 331st in free throw rate (a measure of a team’s ration of free throw attempts to field goal attempts).
  — Reina Kempt, The Courier-Journal, 27 Nov. 2021
• Some members of her family who could find rapid tests tested just once because of the need to ration tests.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
• The army mobilized search and rescue teams, and the king ordered water, food rations and shelters to be sent to those who lost homes.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• There are food-ration books and recipe books, some published by the government, to help people cook with those rations.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
• Hit by high prices and supply disruptions, Beasley said the UN has been forced to ration food supplies to millions of people around the world.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 13 May 2022
• The Rohingya are banned from working and rely on food rations, which have been slashed due to a drop in global donations.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• The high cost has forced many people with diabetes to ration or skip drug doses, which help the body manage blood sugar.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• In the early years of the camp, refugees had to stand in long lines to receive food rations, and for decades their cramped homes lacked electricity or running water.
  — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• The protocols allow the hospitals to ration care and resources that are being stretched thin.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
• That cap will not extend to younger Americans who are more likely to ration insulin.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• Why Trust Us? Survival is more than just stockpiling food and buying rations.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• The remaining home cooks will be asked to prepare a gourmet meal using three components from Army rations.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
• The authorities are also providing dry ration kits and cooked food packets to the needy.
  — Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
• Morocco's neighbors have chosen to ration water in varying ways.
  — Sam Metz, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• Like many detainees, Jihan supplemented her rations using money earned from occasional jobs around the camp.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

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ration

2 of 2 verb

• During the war, the government rationed gasoline.
• Bread rationing marked the depths of sacrifices on the home front.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Growing restless as the weeks passed, men brandished knives over the ham when the cook tried to ration it.
  — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
• On top of that, tens of millions of Americans ration their care.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• Food was so scarce that it was rationed and could be purchased only with stamps.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2020
• My mom, dad and aunt were all smokers and of course cigarettes were rationed.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• The alarming increase has meant the hospital must ration its care.
  — NBC News, 3 Aug. 2021
• Though all of the state’s hospitals can now ration health care resources as needed, some might not need to take that step.
  — Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2021
• Grocery stores move to ration key items as the coronavirus surges, but experts are bullish on the supply chain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
• The plans are effectively rationing health care, these providers said.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Nearly one in three of the sterile syringe programs that offered naloxone ran out of the drug or had to ration it over the past three months.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2020
• In recent weeks, Ukraine has had to ration its 155-mm caliber artillery shells due to shortages.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
• But in the meantime, SpaceX has been forced to essentially ration out the high-speed resources to paying subscribers.
  — PCMAG, 5 Dec. 2022
• Demand for eggs is so high that some stores have resorted to rationing customers to two dozen per shopping trip.
  — NBC News, 15 May 2020
• As workers begin to ration out the soup in various bowls, some children clamored at the gates amid shouts and childish cheers.
  — NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024
• The announcement comes as the federal government has moved to ration the treatment amid the spread of new variants.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2021
• Nurses and doctors are reusing masks, avoiding patients and rationing gear.
  — J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 1 May 2020
• The family slept in one room and started rationing water, fearing their tank with reserves would soon run out.
  — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• Some are forced to ration the auto-injectors or go without them.
  — Tonya Bauer, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2023
• In Mexico City, the capital, there was a shortage of ice and some convenience stores rationed ice sales.
  — Cesar Rodriguez Elda Cantú, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• So they'd be shocked to see how deeply rationing cut into the access to basic food and household necessities.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Divvying up the vaccine isn’t the first time hospitals have been forced to ration critical care and supplies in the pandemic.
  — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• The family is rationing his pills this summer so that Madison, who recently turned 12, will have them during the school year.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Fed was forced to ration the supplies of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters based on banks’ previous orders.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• The citizens had to ration their food, but the royal celebration was the one exception.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 26 June 2023
• According to a news release from the task force, while the appeal is pending, only state funds can be used, meaning that work on the lakes and dams is rationed, starting now.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• The White House may have to ration the next generation of vaccines, Politico reports.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• If the cost of the drug becomes untenable, some people try to ration their insulin — a choice that can lead to hospitalization or death.
  — Reynolds Lewis, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2022
• If hospitals begin to run out of beds and staff to care for patients, they could be forced to ration medical care and open field hospitals.
  — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• For the daylong dive, Lieutenant Walsh had packed only 15 chocolate bars, which, given the new uncertainties, the men began to ration.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023

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