Sentence examples for ration of bread from inspiring English sources

Children 16 and under get a small ration of bread.

Food was a ration of bread once a day, sometimes supplemented by thin gruel.

When her cries subside, the narrator eats her family's entire ration of bread for the next several days.

At first Teichmann devours his ration of bread, but as his strength ebbs he learns, like the others, to make a crust of bread into a seven-course meal.

Later, Gyuri discovers that his bunkmate has died, but finds himself unable for days to tell the guard of the fact so that he can take the pitiful extra ration of bread.

As in the gulag, where survival could come down to receiving the thicker part of the soup or an extra ration of bread, or simply owning your own bowl, there is no room in his stories for the non-essential.

The inmates of the Soviet labour camps were inadequately clothed for the severe Russian climate, and the standard rations of bread and soup were scarcely adequate to maintain life.

By the sixth day of blockades around the fuel storage depots and refineries, supermarkets began the first rationing of bread since World War II, one car manufacturer reported it was 12 hours away from closing its European production sites, and the health service faced postponing critical operations.

The worker was reportedly only provided with daily rations of bread, rice, and 15 fl oz (450ml) of water.

Huge income deductions to finance industrial investment reduced disposable personal income; mismanagement created chronic shortages in basic foodstuffs resulting in rationing of bread, sugar, flour, and meat.

Here day laborers working on big estates, in vineyards, olive plantations, citrus groves, wheat fields or cork forests received rations of bread and olive oil for their meals.