"supply" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We gave them a little biscuit and bread, squeezed out of the already scanty supply for the army.
- Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.
- There we lay panting, and every now and again moistening our lips from our scanty supply of water.
- A few decayed leaves and boughs formed our bed; and a scanty supply of yams and taro, brought to us once a-day, constituted our food.
- On this terrible last day, they had lit the oil-burner, using their entire scanty supply of oil.
- For the last nine weeks they had lived upon a scanty supply of potatoes;--they had not tasted raised bread or animal food for eighteen months.
- Their scanty supply of money had been just sufficient to provide riding-camels and provisions for a bold flying invasion of the unknown.
- Carefully he doled out sips of water from the scanty supply the two had left him.
- Within the minute of their entrapment, Wayne Morgan had snuffed out the lamp, to conserve their scanty supply of oxygen.
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