Sentence examples for stretched supplies from inspiring English sources

Heating oil surged as cold weather increased demand on stretched supplies.

Similar demand has already stretched supplies for flash memory into a near-critical shortage.

It's like using kobe beef to stretch supplies of Hamburger Helper.

Gasoline refiners use ethanol to stretch supplies and cut emissions by raising the fuel's oxygen levels.

Bush has conceded that raising output is difficult because the demand for oil — particularly from China and India — is stretching supplies.

"We're having to turn people away, or ration portions, to stretch supplies," says Deborah Leff, the president of America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest network of soup kitchens.

An editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine this week suggests that officials explore whether diluted vaccine would protect healthy adults and be considered as a strategy to stretch supplies.

Without diapers for their children, low-income families frequently stretch supplies or do not buy diapers at all.

Earlier this year, Beam Inc. admitted plans to reduce the alcohol content of its famous bourbon Maker's Mark in an effort to stretch supplies and accomodate demand.

For health workers, removal of user fees meant a sudden influx of patients to health centres, stretching supplies, staff and space 36.

And they may have an advantage when growing demand for essential raw materials stretches supply chains.