6 sentences with 'lacking'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lacking and other words derived from it.
• « Tyrants, lacking official political status, had to play in the interests of the people to stay in power as popular dictators. Sometimes they seized the lands of the aristocrats and distributed them to the free citizens. »
• « During the 18th century Prussia had grown from a rather poor backwater in the north, lacking in natural resources and far from the centres of intellectual and cultural life further south, to one of the great kingdoms of Europe. »
• « Most astonishingly, camel milk is also rich in vitamin C (almost ten per cent), making it the only source for desert children of this vital substance, which is typically lacking in malnutrition. »
• « If vitamin C is lacking, the body becomes prone to colds, bronchitis, flu, dental problems, scurvy (an old sailor's disease). »
• « This incident exacerbated the rift between the president's team and the inner class in the nation's capital, which viewed the newcomers from Tennessee as lacking decorum and propriety. »