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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But my biggest trauma was the scarcity mindset that our journey could hold their freedom or mine, not both.
  — Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
• Staff at Asheville’s Mission Hospital described the dire conditions after Helene, from no running water to a scarcity of food for both patients and workers.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
• With funding for Children & Family titles at a scarcity, those platforms who could (and did) fund those shows created a competitive advantage for themselves.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024