How to Use scarcity in a Sentence

scarcity

noun

• Scarcity of food forced the herds to move.
• But the flip side of that is a real scarcity of resources.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The scarcity of good jobs increases pressure to work long hours.
  — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Chicken and dumplings makes the most of chicken in scarcity, when a single bird must feed a multitude.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
• In the Global North, at least, scarcity gave way to superabundance.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The issue is not one of scarcity, as the antiviral is widely abundant.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• Fewer tokens dumped on the market means more scarcity, and that means higher prices.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 11 July 2023
• Shahi says the process sometimes takes between two and seven months to complete, namely because of the scarcity of parts.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 July 2023
• The usual scarcities in modern screen comedy: visual finesse and some wit to go with the gross-out stuff.
  — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• Mostly, the film gets by on its handsome sheen, and on the current scarcity of something so proudly old-fashioned on the market.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
• But my biggest trauma was the scarcity mindset that our journey could hold their freedom or mine, not both.
  — Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
• In a stunning turnaround from recent years, the story with vacation rentals on the Cape this summer is not one of scarcity.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• The Italian working class created the dish out of scarcity in the early 1900s, as a way to tenderize cheap meat and soften stale bread.
  — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
• What was a problem of scarcity is now a problem of superabundance.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• There are also increasing scarcities of food and medicine.
  — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 8 May 2023
• The film depicts a busking village where dreams flourish, despite the scarcity of resources and equipment.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 June 2023
• Students, meanwhile, have been stranded by rent hikes and a scarcity of campus housing.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, scarcity will worsen in the Middle East and the Sahel region in Africa, where water is already in short supply.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• The holiday season is feeling a little less sweet this year: There's a widespread scarcity of sugar, and the impact is being felt across the globe.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• That may put them out of reach for many poorer communities most in danger of water scarcity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023
• The scarcity underscores a major problem for San Francisco, but one that’s also plaguing cities and towns across the US.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Spot container rates surged to a record as shipyards ground to a halt, resulting in a scarcity of vessels to meet a spike in demand for e-commerce goods.
  — Ann Koh, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• To Mascha, other, more pressing factors contribute to water scarcity around the globe.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• The scarcity of key drugs is prompting hospitals to find or substitute drugs and change treatment plans as needed.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• Washington’s efforts have kept Ukraine fighting, but use rates are very high, and scarcity persists.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Paul Sonne and Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Construction and dock workers, very well paid, want more by creating scarcity in their trades.
  — Akash Chougule, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• For Vince Brancaccio, the labor scarcities are a daily struggle.
  — Eli Cahan, ABC News, 19 June 2023
• Keep this sense of scarcity at the forefront of your mind to remind you not to pick up tasks and responsibilities that won’t serve your company.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024