Example Sentences

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World War II cemented the snack’s dominance: Sugar rationing crippled candy production, while popcorn, unrationed and still cheap, filled the void.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

The composer himself makes the most of that scene: the spitting, mewling chorus of sinners provides an interlude of rapid, angular music in a score almost too generous in its unrationed radiance, but compelling nonetheless.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012

As U.S. shortages have mounted, more & more Detroit shoppers have been crossing over to Windsor to buy goods that are plentiful and unrationed in Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

Duttweiler promptly made a deal to import several million eggs, sold them unrationed through his stores, and made the government look awful silly�needless to say, egg rationing was . . . canceled.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the evenings she cooks for him, hoping to please, with the unrationed, remarkably unblemished sugar, flour, rice, and salt she had written about to her mother in her very first letter home.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri