SCARCITY in a Sentence

Learn SCARCITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SCARCITY, such as:

1. The first was the scarcity of girls of marriageable age.
2. Old properties in the town have acquired a scarcity value.
3. No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell.
4. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
5. Yes, even as times of want and scarcity may come upon nations, so may they come upon individuals.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCARCITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scarcity
 n.  a small and inadequate amount
Classic Sentence:
1  The first was the scarcity of girls of marriageable age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The rise always came, for with the increasing scarcity of necessities, prices leaped higher by the month.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  But the fading hopes of the Confederacy weighed less heavily on Scarlett than his remark about the scarcity of food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  What I mean is with the scarcity of men in the neighborhood, Will could marry most any of the girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
7  No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.
8  Yes, even as times of want and scarcity may come upon nations, so may they come upon individuals.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Old properties in the town have acquired a scarcity value.