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Example sentences for: lack

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Do I get it when “I shall not want,” four simple one-syllable words, swaying in iambic rhythm, with the shall sliding irresistibly into the breathy w of want calling up the memory of God's “breathing the breath of life” [Genesis 2:7] and man becoming a “living soul” is “improved” to “I shall lack nothing” with its jagged k sound, its materialistic, vacuous nothing , or changed to “I have everything I need” to which “Well, whad-daya know!”
Minuses: the film's New Age spirituality, its sentimental ending, and Cage's lack of acting range.
The lack of specific early markers of infection may be responsible in part for withholding, delaying or unnecessary antimicrobial treatment in critically ill patients [ 4].
Research shows that parents today want that help, that they lack the language to bridge the generation gap and persuade their teens not to do as they did in the '60s and '70s.
By tightly managing Bush's interactions with the press and public, Hughes "allows her candidate to peddle his backslapping bonhomie" without revealing his lack of "basic knowledge and experience."