LACK in a Sentence

Learn LACK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
379 example sentences for LACK, such as:
1. People do not lack strength, they lack will.
2. At first there was a lack of trust between them.
3. The trip was cancelled through lack of interest.
4. The shop has shut down because of lack of trade.
5. You lack the courage to say what you really think.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LACK
lack
 n.  the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
 v.  be without
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ethan was overcome with shame at his lack of self-control in flinging the news at her so brutally.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  They thought none the less of her for her lack of interest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  It was like Gerald that he never wasted regrets on his lack of height and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anything he wanted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  While he entertained the liveliest respect for those who had more book learning than he, he never felt his own lack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Nor did James and Andrew, who took him into their store in Savannah, regret his lack of education.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  After all, the man had nothing against him but a lack of family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  She had never had a girl friend, and she never felt any lack on that account.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  I know what they are thinking, but they never have the courage or lack of breeding to say what they think.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were at the front.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  You lack the courage to say what you really think.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  There would be a good meal at Tara tonight, in spite of the lack of side meat to boil with the vegetables.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  And that lack of fear has gotten me into a lot of trouble and cost me a lot of happiness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  He made some wisecrack about my lack of culinary ability.
2  Hard work can often make up for a lack of ability.
3  The downside of this approach is a lack of clear leadership.
4  People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
5  The basic lack of government funding is at the core of the problem.
6  To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed and cannot rest; are great miseries.
7  She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
8  The shop has shut down because of lack of trade.
9  The trip was cancelled through lack of interest.
10  The lack of a common language made it very difficult to intercommunicate.
11  She felt very inhibited by her own lack of experience.
12  In the refugee centres we saw many children whose stomachs were distended because of lack of food.
13  People do not lack strength, they lack will.
14  Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
15  At first there was a lack of trust between them.