Example sentences for: scarcity

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

  • The authors note that the health-care system in Nigeria is underfunded and suffers from fundamental problems, including material scarcity and inadequacies in infrastructure, both of which may contribute to discriminatory behavior.

  • Here again, the benefits of this cut will flow almost entirely to the wealthiest, and will solve a problem that currently does not exist (that is, capital scarcity).

  • The scarcity of flatlands suitable for cultivation made it possible for a small aristocratic elite to gain quick control of the food resources.

  • I've been sifting through the reports of all the lawsuits against Nintendo claiming that collecting the Pokémon trading cards, with their built-in scarcity factor, is a form of insidious infant gambling.

  • 4) However well-meaning the new subsidy, technology is moving so fast that the old regulatory apparatus--based on permanent scarcity and obstacles of distance--don't apply to the Internet.


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