How to Use scarcity in a Sentence

scarcity

noun
  • Scarcity of food forced the herds to move.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Further contributing to this mystique is the matter of scarcity: of all big cats, the snow leopard is one of the rarest.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Lower crop yields will mean more scarcity and higher food prices.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Water scarcity, high temperatures, soil quality, and more can all affect the health of avocado plants, and as a result, the size of the fruit.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2025
  • But after periods of rampant overfishing and pollution, the fish had nearly vanished from the James and, in its scarcity, gained a certain mythological status.
    Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025

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