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
• More people having jobs, scarcity of products, which makes the prices go up, and the rest.
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 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
• There's a scarcity of work and of jobs in the journalism industry at large right now.
  — Eric Deggans, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Lower crop yields will mean more scarcity and higher food prices.
  — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
• At the most base level, there are only 30 jobs to be a coach in the NBA, and scarcity can make people compromise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 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
• And, from a medical point of view, the scarcity of the new antivirals is only one of the challenges for doctors.
  — Ariel Hart, ajc, 8 Feb. 2022
• These problems are the result of blessing, not scarcity.
  — al, 13 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The results are familiar to those old enough to remember: scarcity, and the rise of black markets.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Despite the scarcity of jobs for deaf actors, Kotsur is not exactly a stranger to the limelight.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• For Gogi, though, this was simply a means of dealing with Soviet scarcity.
  — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
• This earlier chapter in the search for critical minerals offers some solutions for solving scarcity that could address the concerns rising up in the U.S. once again.
  — Duncan Money / Made By History, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Feb 2025