"lack" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The British were surrounded by hostile people, lacked food, and suffered disease.
- Poor people lacked enough food in the Depression, and farmers had too much.
- Wading birds are not nesting because they lack food and water.
- And we should care about people in other countries who die because they lack basic medicine and food.
- Despite lacking basic equipment and food the French army went on the offensive.
- "Starveling" is a word for a thin or poor person lacking food.
- Villagers lacked food, and clothing was made from old sacks.
- The population isn't lacking food and essential social services.
- The report said two billion people already lacked sufficient food, and water use had increased six times over the past 70 years.
- "This comfortable assurance that you will never lack food or clothing is, to my mind, the most striking change the years have brought."
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