Sentence examples for wartime rations from inspiring English sources

At the time, chocolate was still in short supply immediately after World War II, thanks to wartime rations on cocoa.

Mr. Whishaw, who played Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 movie of "Brideshead Revisited," has the unnourished body of a London youth reared on wartime rations.

Many French families had willingly sheltered downed airmen, sharing their own meager wartime rations and scrounging to find boots and pants that would fit outsize Americans.

Spartan lifestyles and wartime rations became the reality even for women of privileged background, whose husbands at the forefront of the war ceased caring for personal luxuries.

Now less plump thanks to her assiduous work and wartime rations, she received positive notices in both Britain and the United States.

In a recent British study, one group of schoolchildren was given hamburgers, French fries, and other familiar lunch foods; the other was fed nineteen-forties-style wartime rations such as boiled cabbage and corned beef.

There was wartime rationing.

Wartime rationing also left a mark.

Then came the Depression and wartime rationing.

Working-class soldiers at the front had already seen what a leveller wartime rationing could be.

For people who lived through wartime rationing, it's probably bananas.