How to Use scarcity in a Sentence

scarcity

noun

• Scarcity of food forced the herds to move.
• That’s a scarcity mind-set, which is not a fun way to live your life.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 June 2025
• The scarcity of his snaps makes every day count even more.
  — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2021
• But the flip side of that is a real scarcity of resources.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• Selling the Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders era of scarcity won’t be easy.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• That scarcity has helped lift home prices to all-time highs and has started to slow down the pace of sales.
  — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• Both the newness of the drug and the high demand amid surging case counts has led to its scarcity.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
• Drury added that deals have been hard to find on any of these brands’ EVs due to demand and scarcity.
  — Patrick George, The Verge, 29 Dec. 2022
• In times of scarcity, Austin could extract water from the aquifers.
  — Aaron Sullivan, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• More people having jobs, scarcity of products, which makes the prices go up, and the rest.
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2022
• Most of the time Haaland’s lack of movement at the top of the team can be excused due to a scarcity of space to attack.
  — Thom Harris, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
• This puts the birds at risk as the state could still see some extreme weather or food-source scarcity.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
• The human brain evolved to deal with scarcity, not abundance.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
• This data scarcity has led to a whole lot of weird new ways to get unique data.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Jan. 2025
• As courts weigh in, the scarcity of real problems is likely to play a role.
  — Ryan Sparrow, USA Today, 30 June 2021
• Agriculture is one of the main drivers of water scarcity in the West.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
• One reason for the doll’s scarcity, Fleming writes, could be the Mavs’ lack of success when the doll was released.
  — José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
• Part of the difficulty is due to the scarcity of flights into and out of China.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022
• This is due to their scarcity and high intrinsic worth.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• The Chosen has caught on with Christians in part because of scarcity.
  — Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 27 June 2021
• There's a scarcity of work and of jobs in the journalism industry at large right now.
  — Eric Deggans, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
• In parts of the country, the scarcity is so dire that some students have been stranded without a ride to or from school.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2021
• The value of a company’s shares is not a creation of share scarcity.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Mine is about an abundance of water and his is about scarcity and dryness.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2021
• The scarcity of good jobs increases pressure to work long hours.
  — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Home sales are at a 14-year low, and the scarcity of listings is likely to nudge purchase prices higher.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• How should the country address the scarcity of mental-health care services for kids?
  — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Scientists blame the scarcity on climate change, with huge swaths of China scorched by the fiercest heat wave in 60 years.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
• For Bergman in Sitka, the years-long scarcity has changed family rhythms.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2021
• Two downtown residents testified on the scarcity of services in Skid Row.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025