How to Use shortage in a Sentence

shortage

noun

• The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
  — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
• And that has contributed to the shortage of starter homes in the United States.
  — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• The first two cans were mixed during a paint shortage in 2022, and the second can didn’t quite match.
  — Rory Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2024
• The square footage shortage leaves room for only one tiny bed.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
• The eatery cited staffing shortages as the reason for the closure.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
• But due to shortages, many of them have been unable to access them.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• There’s no shortage of events and sports to wager on in Ohio with the DraftKings sportsbook.
  — Catena Media, al, 16 Dec. 2022
• The city, like many places, is facing a police staffing shortage.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Dana Taylor: So first of all, why are there so many crew shortages to begin with?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• At the same time, millions of workers have joined or rejoined the work force, helping to ease the labor shortage.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• The City Council has had an extreme shortage of women members over the past decade.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• The Iron Age ushered in a 300-year drought which contributed to crop shortages and widespread famine.
  — Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
• Without free aid, people in the south are now facing the same kinds of dire shortages as those in the north contended with for months.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 24 May 2024
• The 90 million acres of homegrown corn could be a solution to the supply shortage.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
• Prices at some smaller tender sales and auctions have risen between 5% and 10% in the past week as shortages of some stones start to emerge.
  — Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Plus, the shortage of shots makes the task of getting syphilis numbers down difficult, health officials across the U.S. told the AP.
  — Bymike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 8 Nov. 2023
• And even with the support of charities, food shortages are common.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024
• At the end of the day that means more shortages and more outages, and that can contribute to cancellations.
  — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024
• There is a shortage of cheery Tennessee high school football news this week.
  — Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• Evans has blamed the state for failing to deal with a shortage of long-term centers where youths who have been ordered there by the courts can be treated.
  — Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2024
• There’s no disputing that San Diego has a shortage of shelter space.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• Brace yourself for long lines at the TSA and a possible shortage of parking spaces.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2022
• All had severe guard shortages, the staffing data revealed.
  — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• And Nemeth did not inform higher-ups in the guard that the staffing shortages had become severe, according to the IG report.
  — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• And the state is suffering from a severe shortage of affordable child care.
  — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 13 July 2024
• The restrictions were put in place in 2022 due to the severe water shortage from persistent drought.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
• The strains of an acute staffing shortage led to tensions between the unions and Kaiser executives in the run-up to the contract’s expiration.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Then, the pandemic happened and Uber faced a driver shortage.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2023
• But increasingly, many families are being pushed out of the neighborhood by a housing shortage and soaring rents and child care costs.
  — Winnie Hu, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025