How to Use shortfall in a Sentence

shortfall

noun

• But that still leaves a shortfall for the deal price tag.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 May 2026
• Where’d the shortfall come from?
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
• But those changes can't make up all of the shortfall.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
• Who will make up for the shortfall in handouts?
  — Hadley Gamble, semafor.com, 19 Mar. 2026
• This supply shortfall has caused the prices of new and used cars to soar.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 13 Nov. 2021
• Maybe that can make up for some shortfall elsewhere on the blue line.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• And be honest about wins and shortfalls.
  — Simone E. Morris, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• One project has a shortfall of $8 million.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2026
• And that slow pace has only made the shortfalls worse, Brown said.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2026
• But increasing the wage base wouldn’t close much of the shortfall.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• As if the city isn’t facing a revenue shortfall.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
• And with the shortfall in job growth last month, the latter just isn't a given yet.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
• The shortfall in finance is hard to overstate.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
• Trust us, there are shortfalls in what’s been happening.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026
• Here’s another way to think of the shortfall.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 16 June 2026
• Those spending shortfalls often don’t show up for years.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
• Most of the shortfall is due to the stronger dollar, which impedes sales of its goods abroad.
  — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• But the current shortfall is a direct result of the tax bill.
  — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
• There is no plan for how the county would address the rest of the shortfall over the next five years.
  — Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
• Apple will need to craft new arrangements that make up for the shortfall.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024
• For the past two years, the city has raised rates at meter and off-street garages amid fiscal shortfalls.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• The general fund is the fund that has been facing a shortfall.
  — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
• The general fund is the fund that has been facing a shortfall.
  — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
• Some have tried to address that shortfall by capturing more wild fish to breed.
  — ProPublica, 24 May 2022
• If there’s a shortfall, the host can trim an activity or two.
  — Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, SELF, 21 Mar. 2023
• The cause of the worker shortfall has been years in the making, Popp said.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2022
• To make up the shortfall, total benefits would need to be slashed.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
• But that has become harder as the state looks for ways to fill budget shortfalls.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
• These shortfalls drive up rents and choke off the path to homeownership.
  — Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
• The shortfall has been blamed as a key factor in a surge of new virus cases in recent weeks.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2021