How to Use scarce in a Sentence
scarce
adjective
- Food was getting scarce during the drought.
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But copies of the hit videogame were as scarce as hen’s teeth.
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Stephen McBride,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2021
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Clouds are scarce to start but pop up as the day warms.
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James Hohmann,
Washington Post,
7 June 2018
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The gold in the brain, the most scarce resource, is memory.
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Cmo,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2024
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When the sea is vast and the ladies are scarce, what’s a lovesick male dolphin to do?
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Katherine J. Wu,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2020
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That’s a hard thing to do this year, with jobs as scarce as snowfall in the south.
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Beth Thames | [email protected],
al,
16 Dec. 2020
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Coronavirus tests were scarce then, and the process was slow.
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Adam Himmelsbach,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 Mar. 2021
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With clues very scarce, the team membes have their work cut out for them.
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Chuck Barney,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Aug. 2020
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Nordman said there’s a lot of trail where moose will be scarce.
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Aubrey Wieber,
Anchorage Daily News,
6 Mar. 2020
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Children have dropped out of school, there is no work, and meals are scarce.
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Sarita Santoshini,
The Christian Science Monitor,
14 June 2023
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But even in the face of scarce common ground, most maintain ties of some sort.
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BostonGlobe.com,
25 Apr. 2023
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Over the past few months, vaccines have been a scarce resource.
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Evan MacDonald,
cleveland,
22 Apr. 2021
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With a championship at stake, details were scarce in the lead up to the game.
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Michael Casagrande | [email protected],
al,
6 Nov. 2019
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Many who worked in the city have gone home to the countryside, but work there is scarce, too.
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The Economist,
30 Dec. 2020
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Tickets are scarce, with the labs and some concerts sold out.
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Sean P. Means,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
4 Sep. 2022
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Boats and farms and hoards of tourists flourish in a place where water used to be scarce.
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Leia Larsen,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
22 July 2023
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The province is Iran’s second largest and one of the most water scarce in the country.
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Sanam Mahoozi,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
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The problem is that warm days are no longer scarce during the summer months.
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WIRED,
16 June 2023
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And roster spots were scarce among those teams preparing to play in the fall.
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Nick Moyle,
ExpressNews.com,
20 Oct. 2020
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Details of the strike that killed him were scarce, including when and where.
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Adam Goldman,
BostonGlobe.com,
1 Aug. 2019
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There’s no good reason for these pictures to be so scarce.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
3 May 2018
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And while many of these workers would like full-time jobs, offers are scarce.
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Naomi Nix,
Washington Post,
5 July 2023
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With the recent birth of my daughter, fishing trips have been scarcer.
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Jordan Rodriguez,
idahostatesman,
1 June 2018
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Trading volume was thin as buyers of the stock were scarce,...
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Sean McLain,
WSJ,
23 Jan. 2017
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Again, specifics as to what would happen next (and when those very things would happen) were scarce.
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Meredith Carey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Dec. 2018
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But donors like these are scarce and the procedure is too risky to be widely used.
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Marilynn Marchione,
USA TODAY,
25 Sep. 2020
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But the shortage of bed space means treatment options are scarce.
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Salvador Rizzo,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2022
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That money will become as scarce as the ad money is now.
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Vulture,
20 Dec. 2023
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Not all birds migrate, but many travel south as winter approaches and food becomes scarce.
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Cecilia Garzella,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2024
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Economists who do not work with the government are becoming scarce, as independent think tanks are raided and shuttered.
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Alex Travelli,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2024
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