How to Use shortage in a Sentence

shortage

noun

• The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
  — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
• But this, in turn, caused its own shortage and record-high prices.
  — CBS News, 13 Jan. 2022
• The labor shortage pushed prices for rides to record highs last year.
  — Preetika Rana, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• New York City is in the grips of its worst housing shortage in more than 50 years.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
• And that has contributed to the shortage of starter homes in the United States.
  — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• There’s been no shortage of doom and gloom predictions from Wall Street since the start of the year.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 4 June 2022
• There was never a shortage of food, or long waits to get your meal.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
• And the longer the staffing shortages persist, the longer some ATCs risk exhaustion and burnout.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
• The first two cans were mixed during a paint shortage in 2022, and the second can didn’t quite match.
  — Rory Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2024
• The square footage shortage leaves room for only one tiny bed.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
• The worst blood shortage in over a decade is putting patient care at risk in some parts of the country.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2022
• The eatery cited staffing shortages as the reason for the closure.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
• Girl Scouts said a labor shortage at the bakery was to blame.
  — Ryce Stoughtenborough, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2022
• But due to shortages, many of them have been unable to access them.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• The disputes over Gascón’s policies, some say, are to blame for a staffing shortage in the office.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• And with that oil being off the market, that means there is a shortage, and then of course, gas prices go up.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
• As a result, that’s made the labor shortage even worse.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2022
• There’s no shortage of events and sports to wager on in Ohio with the DraftKings sportsbook.
  — Catena Media, al, 16 Dec. 2022
• The city, like many places, is facing a police staffing shortage.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• There seemed to be a shortage of males at débutante parties.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Because of the shortage of sweet stuff, trick-or-treating wasn't as big of a thing during WWII.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2022
• But the call also offered a glimmer of hope that the chip shortage is starting to ease.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 July 2022
• Haitians are facing shortages of food and medicines, and gangs control roads in and out of the capital.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
• By game’s end, the Patriots had no shortage of reasons to hang their heads high.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• More than one-third of businesses said the labor shortage is the greatest threat to growth.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 8 Mar. 2022
• Dana Taylor: So first of all, why are there so many crew shortages to begin with?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• In other words, there's no shortage of items to suit your child's style and room aesthetic.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 4 June 2022
• The shortage could affect the chances of a full shooting calendar this winter.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The ongoing matcha shortage is pushing some tea drinkers to try an alternative: hojicha.
  — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 20 Aug. 2025