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."