He wasn't able to go out with his friends, due to a lack of money.
She won't get promoted to a management position because she lacks the ability to make difficult decisions.
He's a smart enough guy, but sometimes I think he just lacks common sense.
The local hospital
lacks the facilities necessary to deal with this kind of medical emergency.
He didn't get the job, due to a lack of experience.
After having been apart for three months, my wife and I certainly didn't have a lack of things to talk about.
The book I got out of the library
lacked the information I needed to finish my report, so I'll have to find a better one.
We lack the necessary software to run this computer program.
Eric Butterworth once remarked that poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Gustave
Flaubert once said that to be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
There is an Egyptian proverb which states that silence is more than just a lack of words.
There is an Irish proverb which observes that there is no need like the lack of a friend.
There is an Italian proverb which states that he who has nothing, lacks nothing.
There is a Swiss proverb which states that the poor lack much, but the greedy more.
On his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768, Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98-man crew to illness caused by a lack of vitamin C.
Lack of sleep is becoming such a problem for American adults that 8 percent say they occasionally or frequently fall asleep at work, and 19 percent say they make errors because of sleepiness.
Inexperienced language learners often lack the learning strategies necessary for independent study of a second language.
Lack of motivation, and the inability to enjoy favorite activities are just a couple of the symptoms of depression.
More than one billion people on our planet lack access to safe drinking water.
W. C. Fields once joked that reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
Early attempts to teach chimpanzees to speak were unsuccessful because the animals lack the necessary vocal equipment.
A recent study in Hong Kong suggests that lack of regular physical activity kills more people than smoking.