LACKING in a Sentence

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For LACKING, below is one of 379 sentences:
Thirsty people were never lacking there; but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to the pitcher.

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 Meanings and Examples of LACKING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lacking
 n.  the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
 v.  be without
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
2  But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which two teeth were lacking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
3  She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in respect towards the beginning.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
4  Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was again present.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
5  Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was a soul lacking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
6  So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be lacking in the house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
7  A theatre worthy of this great talent was lacking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
8  Thirsty people were never lacking there; but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to the pitcher.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
9  Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
10  No trait of the universal face is lacking in the profile of Paris.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
11  explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
12  Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
13  Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in solidity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
14  No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean crisis, which was already perceptible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
15  It was usually when money was lacking in the house that Jean Valjean took these little trips.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS
Example Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
16  The party lacks a strong enough local base.
17  The farm lacks even basic equipment.
18  He's a competent politician, but he lacks vision.
19  This latest collection lacks style and originality.
20  Unfortunately, the film lacks commercial appeal.
21  He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
22  He that has a full purse never lacks a friend.
23  The film lacks any semblance of realism.
24  He lacks the necessary skills for the job.
25  The court is ineffective because it lacks the necessary enforcement machinery.
26  Someone who lacks staying power and persistence is unlikely to make a good researcher.
27  His work lacks that professional touch.
28  Her approach to the job lacks purpose.
29  Your paper lacks the logic to prove your thesis.
30  Still, the resurrection is the movie's only out-and-out miracle, and it lacks good explanation.