How to Use shortfall in a Sentence

shortfall

noun

• The changes were the latest in a slew of freeway projects ODOT has pared down in the face of a funding shortfall.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• The referendum was built to plug most of that shortfall.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
• The extra money isn't part of the shortfall but will be absorbed in the overall K-12 budget.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• If there’s a shortfall, the host can trim an activity or two.
  — Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, SELF, 21 Mar. 2023
• As the government scrambles to cover the shortfall, the tax breaks for the agriculture sector went out the door.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 12 Jan. 2024
• In the past five years, the shortfall has led to the department shelling out millions of dollars in overtime payments.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2023
• The think tank said the program faces a $35 billion to $95 billion ten-year shortfall, net of current reserves.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• That’s been Sweden’s vow for decades after its Cup shortfalls.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• To help account for this shortfall, Tesla knocked 20% off the Model Y’s sticker.
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• The nation has a current shortfall of about 6.5 million homes, Realtor.com data shows.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 31 May 2023
• Bulk prices for olive oil have doubled compared to the same time last year and all indications point to a shortfall in the next harvest, Zanre said.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• Given the shortfall this would create, lawmakers allowed the city to extend the tax district from one square mile to two.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
• False confessions The Samaya case is not the first to shine a spotlight on Japan’s criminal justice shortfalls.
  — Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• That’s going to result in a retail shortfall of more than $3 billion compared to last year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• But some analysts believe that most of these issues have now been ironed out and that India can make up for the shortfall of new projects this year.
  — Sibi Arasu, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• America has a housing supply shortfall that has been years in the making.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• That’s led to disagreements between hospitals, unions and nursing schools over the best ways to address the staffing shortfalls.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• State revenue shortfalls are putting guns in conflict with butter.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• Growth has slowed to a crawl, while a severe shortfall of dollars is hampering imports.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Newsom shot down the idea of California enacting a wealth tax to address the shortfall.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Parks did not identify the exact amount of the shortfall, but wrote that the district needs to cut $25 million in the next school year's budget to comply with state and school board requirements.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2024
• While there is still a major shortfall, Zandi says, the market is going to have to shift eventually.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Any shortfall in revenue from catering could have a domino effect on the rest of the operations that relied on those cash flows.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
• Many people assumed that the transformation planned by Gee was in response to a budget shortfall.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• The driver can compensate for the performance shortfall to some extent by using the lower gears to stay in the engine's upper rev range.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• This month, the U.S. sent cluster munitions to Ukraine to fill an ammunition shortfall.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 27 July 2023
• Their rebound makes up some of the shortfall suffered during the pandemic, when workers who didn’t graduate high school saw some of the worst job losses.
  — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Still, around 20% of the Clark’s rooms are vacant and the nonprofit has had to spend nearly $2 million to cover budget shortfalls in recent years, Benson said.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• This grant funding is part of $50 million received by The City of Gary to help bridge budget shortfalls and mitigate the financial shock of the pandemic.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
• How the mayor confronts the shortfall in the general purpose fund, a gap of $345 million over the next two years, will likely determine the city’s direction.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024