starvation rations
Frequency: 5.80.3 per million words
a very small, fixed amount of food, not enough to live on
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- During the siege, the city's inhabitants were reduced to starvation rations.
- The prisoners of war survived on meager starvation rations for months.
- Even with the emergency aid, many families were still living on starvation rations.
- The explorers were down to starvation rations after losing their main supply.
- Providing only starvation rations to the refugees was a humanitarian crisis.
- They complained that their daily allowance of food was nothing more than starvation rations.
- After the storm, the stranded villagers had to manage on starvation rations until rescue arrived.
- The diet prescribed by the nutritionist felt like starvation rations to the hungry patient.
- Living on starvation rations severely weakened the population.
- The aid organization distributed starvation rations to prevent further loss of life.