Below you will find example sentences with "food supplies". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Food Supplies in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: supplies
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.1 words

Words in this phrase

food supplies

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • food can mean: Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. Common word
  • supplies can mean: third-person singular simple present indicative of supply Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

affect global food supplies 1× and kept food supplies safe 1× as with food supplies there is 1× but restricted food supplies 1× finances and food supplies 1× fire to food supplies and rummaging 1× food and food supplies for meals 1× fuel and food supplies and indiscriminate 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

alarming video footage 1× an egyptian cargo 1× around the world 1× as with food 1× born in august 1× by the end 1×

Common sentence endings:

a precarious footing 1× and food supplies 1× and indiscriminate violence 1× at the hotel 1× blocking humanitarian aid 1× food supplies safe 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

water 5× aid 4× gaza 3× pet 2× world 2× government 2× red 2× guyana 2× war 2× amount 2× strip 2× sudan 2×

Related phrases

food trucks food waste food bank food delivery medical supplies food truck food safety food vendors food items food security

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around supplies:

medical supplies 20× water supplies 10× cleaning supplies 8× school supplies 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

food security food safety food production food processing food prices food menu

Just after it in the phrase index:

food truck food trucks food vendors food waste footage captured football academy

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

food trucks food waste food bank food delivery food truck food safety

Same ending:

medical supplies water supplies cleaning supplies school supplies

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "food supplies" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as affect global food supplies, and kept food supplies safe, water, aid and gaza stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with food trucks, food waste, food bank, medical supplies, water supplies and cleaning supplies, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with food supplies

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

He said: ‘Food supplies are running out at the hotel. (10 words)

Protection of water supplies and food supplies are often a critical part of biodefense. (14 words)

As with food supplies, there is no restriction on the amount of water that may enter Gaza. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Born in August 1912 in Liverpool, he went on to meet his wife Blodwen at a dance before marrying her in 1942, at the height of World War II when he served in the Royal Army Pay Corps, which was responsible for finances and food supplies. (46 words)

By the end of the 1980s, severe shortages of basic food supplies (meat, sugar) led to the reintroduction of the war-time system of distribution using food cards that limited each citizen to a certain amount of product per month. (40 words)

The United Nations’ top aid official, Under Secretary General Martin Griffiths, said in an interview on Friday that the long-term consequences of the dam collapse and flooding were “extremely dire” and would affect global food supplies. (37 words)

Exclamation examples

This, of course, doesn’t over impress the resident non-hibernating members of our garden crew, the squirrels, who don’t really want any more competitors to their food supplies! (30 words)

Example sentences (20)

In addition to donating food and food supplies for meals, UnitedHealthcare also contributed healthy pet food and pet supplies to help local seniors continue to care for their pets.

Around the world, stress on water supplies can conflict and migration, threaten food supplies and pose risks for water-dependent industries, including mining and manufacturing, WRI notes.

On 30 June 1969, the Nigerian government banned all Red Cross aid to Biafra; two weeks later it allowed medical supplies through the front lines, but restricted food supplies.

Protection of water supplies and food supplies are often a critical part of biodefense.

Western countries call that an attempt to use leverage over food supplies to force a weakening in financial sanctions, which already allow Russia to sell food.

While food supplies in Guyana are presently stable, an extended period of this crisis, coupled with climate change, can put Guyana’s food supply chains on a precarious footing.

By the end of the 1980s, severe shortages of basic food supplies (meat, sugar) led to the reintroduction of the war-time system of distribution using food cards that limited each citizen to a certain amount of product per month.

Refrigeration systems were introduced to the farming process, which helped in food preservation and kept food supplies safe.

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Alarming video footage of Israeli soldiers’ activities in the Gaza Strip, including them being seen setting fire to food supplies and rummaging through private homes have been shared widely online.

An Egyptian cargo ship carrying some 190 tons of Kuwaiti aid arrived in Sudan’s main Red Sea port on Sunday, with relief assistance running the gamut from food supplies to healthcare essentials.

Following Tuesday’s separate virtual National Executive Council meetings, the unions resolved to commence the strike on October 3 and urged Nigerians to stock up on food supplies for at least one week.

Healthcare, electricity, water and food supplies have been cut, posing a death threat to countless civilians in the Gaza Strip, as Israel imposed a “complete siege”, cutting essential services and blocking humanitarian aid.

He said: ‘Food supplies are running out at the hotel.

In Sudan's exploitative political economy, raiding, displacement and the restriction of food supplies yields benefits from selling grain at high prices while buying cheap livestock, and labour.

Privately, however, staff in the field agreed that the high mortality rate was a result of the government’s failure to distribute food supplies that were readily available in the country.

The United Nations’ top aid official, Under Secretary General Martin Griffiths, said in an interview on Friday that the long-term consequences of the dam collapse and flooding were “extremely dire” and would affect global food supplies.

This, of course, doesn’t over impress the resident non-hibernating members of our garden crew, the squirrels, who don’t really want any more competitors to their food supplies!

As with food supplies, there is no restriction on the amount of water that may enter Gaza.

Born in August 1912 in Liverpool, he went on to meet his wife Blodwen at a dance before marrying her in 1942, at the height of World War II when he served in the Royal Army Pay Corps, which was responsible for finances and food supplies.

Destruction of infrastructure was followed by a communications blackout, the blocking of access to fuel and food supplies and indiscriminate violence.

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