Sentence examples for ration box from inspiring English sources

It usually consisted of a ration box, meant to last the whole day, comprising a sachet of orange juice, several packs of sweets, a chewy energy bar and two meals contained in silver, heatable, plastic packages; described, variously, as paella, or spaghetti carbonara, the contents were unrecognisable.

Along the way, soldiers broke open their ration boxes, some of them complete with canned Camembert, to distribute to children.

There, as the account goes, he built a church with United States Army ration boxes and lived in a mountainside shack.

A camouflage poncho on display is an example of wartime functionalism that spilled over into graphic design, its blobs appearing in red and blue on K ration boxes.

He volunteered for overseas service and was posted to Italy where, he laughs, as a messenger in the Apennines his sense of direction was so poor he used to tear up ration boxes to leave a trail so he could find his way back to base.

Now it turned out they weren't hot, either, at making sure the ladders in the escape shafts went all the way to the top, or that the emergency rations box contained enough emergency rations.

The evening began with various set pieces trickling out from the diminutive storefront: first a fortune teller, then Turkish delights dispensed from an emergency rations box, black light manicures administered curbside, a purple question mark funerary wreath was brought forth.

(It took three men to lug the team's rations — boxes full of cereal, bread, yogurt, eggs, fruit, honey, chocolate spread, jam, peanut butter, and other snacks — into the hotel breakfast room during the Dauphiné.) On days when a race begins at noon or later, Armstrong will eat two heaping plates of pasta and perhaps a power bar three hours before the race, after having had a full breakfast.

For these two hours, we'll stay warm, get slightly buzzed, and ration a box of "Binch" chocolate biscuits.

On Dimensions, uncheck the Maintain aspect ration check box.

On Monday afternoon, Mr. Walsh said the shortages were easing, but suppliers still were rationing panel boxes and circuit breakers.