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"Scarce" in a Sentence (22 examples)
Food is still scarce in the region.
Water is scarce in this area.
Rain is scarce in this country.
Oil is scarce in this country.
Telephone booths are as scarce as hen's teeth around here.
Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
Knowledge is scarce; wisdom is scarcer.
A seller's market is a market in which goods are relatively scarce, buyers have a limited range of choice, and prices are high.
When goods are scarce, sellers have the advantage.
Good fruit is scarce in winter, and costs a lot.
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By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen in value one fifth.
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.
a region scarce of prey
The Virgin quite for her requeſt / The God that ſits at marriage feaſt; / He at their invoking came / But with a ſcarce-wel-lighted flame; / And in his Garland as he ſtood, / Ye might diſcern a Cipreſs bud.
I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, / That I scarce was sure I heard you […]
Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.
He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand, / But she loosened her hair i' the casement! His face burnt like a brand / As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast; / And he kissed its waves in the moonlight, / (Oh, sweet, black waves in the moonlight!)
Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.
Well, it's scarce the replacement then, is it?
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