in short supply

idiom

: available in amounts that are less than needed

Gasoline is in short supply.

Examples of in short supply in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As tech giants continue to spend billions of dollars buying those chips and building out AI data centers, memory is in short supply. —Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2026

Diesel is in short supply around the world because of the sanctions on oil from Venezuela and Russia and because America’s lighter crude oil can’t easily replace it. —Michelle Chapman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026

Diesel is in short supply around the world because of the sanctions on oil from Venezuela and Russia and because America’s lighter crude oil can’t easily replace it. —Michelle Chapman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026

Diesel is in short supply around the world because of the sanctions on oil from Venezuela and Russia and because America’s lighter crude oil can’t easily replace it. —Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for in short supply

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