How to Use for lack of in a Sentence

for lack of

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  • But that hasn’t been for lack of a plan.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This is not for lack of demand.
    — Artem Milinchuk, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • He was fired for lack of talent.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But that hasn’t been for lack of trying.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Its events are pay-what-you-can, with no one turned away for lack of funds.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • And we were just cut from the same cloth, for lack of a better phrase.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Most of the tourist shops around the holy sites are shuttered for lack of tourists.
    — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Our jaws ached for lack of something tough to chew (some gum might have helped).
    — Tom Hinman, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2024
  • Businesses have had to cut back their hours for lack of staff.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The club rejected her for lack of record.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Which means that this very broad design survey has gaps for lack of space.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • But Mariska, for lack of a better word, manned up and took over the damn place.
    — Alex Ross, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But most under-35 adults who live with parents are not there for lack of a job.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 11 July 2026
  • Awards are a real crapshoot, for lack of a better term.
    — Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • You were seen as sort of a people pleaser, for lack of a better term.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Teens can be a little — for lack of a better word — extra.
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • His lack of a deep playoff run isn’t for lack of his own production.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
  • Banks had canceled the state credit card for lack of payment.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Ellis dismissed part of the case for lack of standing.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But his mother has died, left behind for lack of bribe money for a visa.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Charges against Tamasese were dropped that year for lack of evidence.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And at night, streets are plunged into darkness for lack of lighting.
    — Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The company, in turn, pledges not to lay them off for lack of business.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The chemistry was, for lack of a better word, insane.
    — Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Greed, for lack of a better word, isn’t good at conveying that.
    — Michael Serazio, Fortune, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Berlin, to me, for lack of a better word, is just a cool festival.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But don’t mistake sweetness and spice for lack of substance.
    — Emilia Emerson, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The world this quest takes place in is, for lack of a better term, cartoonish.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
  • That isn’t for lack of need, say county officials.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The song that plays as he, uh, for lack of a better word, chops up Malcolm?
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2023

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