Sentence examples for ration and from inspiring English sources

The guinea pigs felt fit and well on the ration and could do their usual work.

A young chef is preparing that day's ration, and lets me sniff the rich, earthy shavings collected in his bowl.

Hay provides the bulk of the horse's ration and may be of varying composition according to locale.

He discovered that the prisoners were being cheated of their legal daily meat ration, and he encouraged them to refuse the food.

"The road out of town-past the officers' Red Cross and the warehouse where we drew the beer ration and out along the streetcar tracks".

They might ask about the potato ration, and you'd tell them there wasn't any ration — you could buy all you wanted.

Embarrassed, he explained that it was bread from the ration, and that his family had to eat black market bread since the ration was not sufficient.

Now the big government donors are telling U.N.H.C.R. that they can't fully finance the program, and the organization is cutting back the food ration and the medical assistance.

Though he misses the Soviet days of a guaranteed bread ration and lifetime job security, Mr. Raspayev's transition to capitalist herdsman appears to have been smooth.

They include double killer Mark Robinson, who last year hospitalised five prison officers after becoming upset about his bread ration, and Lee Foye, who killed his partner and was sent to a CSC after murdering a paedophile.

Now the guards kept the peace with a cigarette ration, and by looking the other way when detainees slipped through the camp's porous perimeter and walked the mile into town.