How to Use scarcity in a Sentence

scarcity

noun
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  • 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
  • Drury added that deals have been hard to find on any of these brands’ EVs due to demand and scarcity.
    — Patrick George, The Verge, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Agriculture is one of the main drivers of water scarcity in the West.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Part of the difficulty is due to the scarcity of flights into and out of China.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022
  • This is due to their scarcity and high intrinsic worth.
    — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The scarcity of good jobs increases pressure to work long hours.
    — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
  • Home sales are at a 14-year low, and the scarcity of listings is likely to nudge purchase prices higher.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • How should the country address the scarcity of mental-health care services for kids?
    — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Scientists blame the scarcity on climate change, with huge swaths of China scorched by the fiercest heat wave in 60 years.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Toro says farmer have seen their cattle die and have lost their crops because of water scarcity.
    — Daniela Mohor, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Most of our conversations were about scarcity and how things were tight.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Land in cities is scarce, and zoning restrictions breed even more scarcity.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • Part of the reason for the scarcity of the MoonSwatch has to do with Swatch’s decision to sell the watch only at its brick-and-mortar stores rather than online.
    — Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Relatively few homes are for sale overall, but the scarcity is acute at the lower end.
    — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 20 June 2022
  • Unless the rules change, Aspen won’t ever see a new home built at that size, so scarcity also helped push the price higher.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The usual scarcities in modern screen comedy: visual finesse and some wit to go with the gross-out stuff.
    — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Yet events in recent years have highlighted the scarcity of, and enhanced the premium on, trust.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 June 2022
  • The scarcity of one-club men is a sad reality of modern soccer.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • The Spirits Business that these prices are not unexpected because of the scarcity of the spirits.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 July 2022
  • The scarcity of homes for sale will continue to exert upward pressure on prices.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
  • 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
  • This scarcity, combined with the emotional attachment fans have to their teams, ensures a steady revenue stream even during economic downturns.
    — Samuel Burke, Fortune Europe, 29 Oct. 2024

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