How to Use scarce in a Sentence

scarce

adjective

• Food was getting scarce during the drought.
• But copies of the hit videogame were as scarce as hen’s teeth.
  — Stephen McBride, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Clouds are scarce to start but pop up as the day warms.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• When the sea is vast and the ladies are scarce, what’s a lovesick male dolphin to do?
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
• Coronavirus tests were scarce then, and the process was slow.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• That’s a hard thing to do this year, with jobs as scarce as snowfall in the south.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 16 Dec. 2020
• Nordman said there’s a lot of trail where moose will be scarce.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2020
• With clues very scarce, the team membes have their work cut out for them.
  — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2020
• Over the past few months, vaccines have been a scarce resource.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
• Tickets are scarce, with the labs and some concerts sold out.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• Boats and farms and hoards of tourists flourish in a place where water used to be scarce.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
• But even in the face of scarce common ground, most maintain ties of some sort.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• With a championship at stake, details were scarce in the lead up to the game.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2019
• The problem is that warm days are no longer scarce during the summer months.
  — WIRED, 16 June 2023
• And roster spots were scarce among those teams preparing to play in the fall.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• Children have dropped out of school, there is no work, and meals are scarce.
  — Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
• Many who worked in the city have gone home to the countryside, but work there is scarce, too.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
• Details of the strike that killed him were scarce, including when and where.
  — Adam Goldman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• There’s no good reason for these pictures to be so scarce.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 May 2018
• That money will become as scarce as the ad money is now.
  — Vulture, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the shortage of bed space means treatment options are scarce.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• But donors like these are scarce and the procedure is too risky to be widely used.
  — Marilynn Marchione, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
• Trading volume was thin as buyers of the stock were scarce,...
  — Sean McLain, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2017
• With the recent birth of my daughter, fishing trips have been scarcer.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 1 June 2018
• Also stay on high alert during the dry season when food is scarce.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• And while many of these workers would like full-time jobs, offers are scarce.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• But jobs were scarce for everyone, let alone for felons.
  — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
• Residents couldn’t get bank loans, and jobs were scarce.
  — Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• New projects require a lot of money up front, and investors grew scarce.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• These bats have a strategy for staying alive when food is scarce.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024