Sentence examples for was rationed until from inspiring English sources

Alcohol was rationed until 1955.

"Clothes were rationed until 1949, cheap and simple 'utility furniture' until 1952, food until 1954," he wrote in a memoir, concluding that austerity in "that bare-bones age" was "not just an economic condition: it aspired to a public ethic".

Coal was rationed, as it would be until 1958, with each family limited to 50 hundredweight (2,500kg) a year.

To keep her stomach from spasming with the surge of cool water draughts, the filly was rationed to sips every few minutes until her thirst was slaked.

Most Americans didn't take it seriously until the Second World War — and then only because gas was rationed.

Almost everything was rationed.

Soap was rationed.

Stationery was rationed.

Gasoline was rationed and expensive.

Food was rationed at hotels and restaurants.

From now until then, what remains will be rationed by price.