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Example sentences for: scarce

How can you use “scarce” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If baby sitters were scarce, those terms could be worsened, encouraging people to go out less.
However, because of poor detection of scarce transcripts, flaws on the microarray or experimental error, an expression profile in practice gives fewer than n values.
Examples of "worsening congestion and strain" at the White House the Post cites include: "Storage space is so scarce that items for holiday decorations and the yearly Easter egg roll are kept elsewhere"; "And the China Room, where the presidential china is on display, doubles as a coat room for state dinners"; and "The florists were forced to open boxes of flowers on a table set up in the corridor."
Inoculating every child at $30 a dose would divert scarce resources from even better uses.
skinflint In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce.