How to Use dearth in a Sentence

dearth

noun
  • The dearth of homes on the market has helped prop up prices.
    Alex Vega, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • The dearth of films about the subject is a double-edged sword.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • As with the running game, the dearth of big plays is glaring.
    Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • There was no dearth of paintings evoking love in the past.
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The dearth of homes on the market has buyers scrambling.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2021
  • For some of us, one of the more painful voids of the present moment is the dearth of live events in the concert hall.
    David Mermelstein, WSJ, 1 June 2020
  • Yet the dearth of fronds has left many parishioners scrambling.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Howard sees an echo of that in the dearth of Black goalkeepers.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The dearth of photographs of a younger Tubman has led to false claims in the past.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Despite the depth of the crisis and dearth of funding, there is a glimmer of hope.
    Steve Hamm, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2022
  • Alongside the dearth of goods, a shortage of workers emerged.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There are a few factors contributing to the dearth of used cars on the market.
    Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
  • Most of the honey a colony makes will stay in the hive to sustain the bees in winter and other times of dearth.
    Gemma Tarlach, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2019
  • The dearth of science is a common theme with wildfire smoke.
    Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 5 June 2019
  • But a dearth of details has raised questions as to whether this was an idle claim.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • Maniatis said that will surely lead to a dearth of sound stages.
    Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2019
  • In a strange twist, there’s no dearth of jobs in Allegany.
    J.f. Meils | Ap, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • The dearth of technical glitches would seem like good news.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 24 Apr. 2020
  • But your body will react to the dearth of fuel in various ways.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 4 Jan. 2019
  • That dearth of storage forced holders of the May futures...
    Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 21 May 2020
  • How long the ones that remain can survive with a hiring dearth is unknown.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Bus and train service has been cut back in the tourist city of Lyon amid a dearth of drivers.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • One place where there isn’t a dearth of Bibles is Chattanooga.
    G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2017
  • There’s a surfeit of acting talent in them, and a dearth of uplift.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • There were missed connections, stray passes and a dearth of clear looks at goal.
    Brian Straus, SI.com, 26 June 2018
  • Today, only cranks still deny that the birth dearth is a problem.
    Rachel Lu, National Review, 26 May 2022
  • That meant that there was a dearth of resources in the region for Kinigopoulos to get her hands on.
    John-John Williams Iv, baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But the dearth of new releases available to theaters has been as big a factor.
    Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Peskin blamed the city’s housing dearth on market forces, not red tape.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • MacBooks has been postponed because of a dearth of chips.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021

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