starvation ration
Frequency: 5.55.2 per million words
a ration that is barely enough to survive
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Examples (10)
- They are living on starvation rations.
- The refugees were given mere starvation rations at the camp.
- During the siege, the city's inhabitants survived on starvation rations.
- Even with starvation rations, their spirits remained unbroken.
- The explorers feared they would soon be reduced to starvation rations.
- Providing only starvation rations to prisoners is a violation of human rights.
- Many families subsisted on starvation rations during the famine.
- She had to make her meager starvation ration last for days.
- The soldiers were tired and hungry, living on starvation rations for weeks.
- The aid organization condemned the practice of distributing starvation rations.