scarceness

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Definitions

Phrases

• scarce as hen's teeth
• scarcely ever
• make oneself scarce

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• The evidence is scarce, but since we don’t have more information, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

• The last year was the clearest example yet of what can happen when we allow stable housing options to become scarce.

• Larger stones are more scarce, but a larger stone is not necessarily more valuable.

• With vaccinations off to a rocky start globally, experts had been counting on a one-dose vaccine that would stretch scarce supplies and avoid the logistics nightmare of getting people to return for boosters.

• Food is scarce, and the rodents vigorously attack intruders from other colonies.

• Now, visitors are scarce and the jungle is taking over, leaving some locals nostalgic.

• We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.

• In a country where food was already scarce, slimmed-down portions could be the difference between life and death.

• After two decades of war, even the most basic infrastructure is scarce.

• Food is becoming scarce, which has led to prices increasing beyond the reach of ordinary people.

• And the girl, scarce believing her good fortune, departed with a speed that bordered on the ludicrous.

• Fruit-trees are clearly too scarce, though Cherries in abundance were offered for sale as we passed.

• Scarce a day passed without some engagement in which the King of Naples showed his audacity and his talent as a leader.

• When very scarce, they may sometimes be found, although their structure is not well shown, by the method of Ruge.