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Example sentences for: shortage

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

The lack of hospitality and the shortage of priests who spoke Spanish kept many Mexicanos from participating in the American Catholic Church.
The shortage of frataxin does not result from formation of mutant proteins, but rather from expansion of a GAA repeat in the first intron of the frataxin gene.
Talk to a Democratic pollster or consultant these days, and you're likely to hear a lament about the shortage of politically potent ideas.
Case in point: Jones has no shortage of supporters and needs no feminist help.
44 Therefore, although there is little slack in the availability of boilermakers, better coordination may have avoided the labor shortage problems.