How to Use scarcity in a Sentence

scarcity

noun
  • Scarcity of food forced the herds to move.
  • The scarcity of hours caught her by the throat.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This rise in scarcity can lead to a big price rise and more price swings.
    — William Jones, Ascend Agency, 30 Jan. 2026
  • That’s a scarcity mind-set, which is not a fun way to live your life.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • There is a scarcity of food, scarcity of medicine.
    — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Think through the lens of abundance, not scarcity.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Like, somebody that has lived with scarcity.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The pyramid was built for scarcity.
    — Brett Hurt, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Thrifting has scarcity at its core.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • That scarcity made the work valuable.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Their scarcity tells us danger lurks.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The move will likely add to food scarcity on the island.
    — Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • Lower crop yields will mean more scarcity and higher food prices.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The challenge isn’t just scarcity.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This data scarcity has led to a whole lot of weird new ways to get unique data.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Jan. 2025
  • There may be a few folks who can salvage this soulless scourge of scarcity.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • In many ways, they’re grounded in a scarcity mindset about time.
    — Aiko Bethea, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The human brain evolved to deal with scarcity, not abundance.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • There’s a scarcity mind-set in withholding a song.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That scarcity has helped lift home prices to all-time highs and has started to slow down the pace of sales.
    — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • But the scarcity drove these young men together.
    — John Lingan, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
  • While fine art and wine share attributes like scarcity and craft, Scotch whisky stands apart.
    — Paul Kopec, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This puts the birds at risk as the state could still see some extreme weather or food-source scarcity.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
  • True scarcity is in value, not volume.
    — Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Or maybe my scarcity mindset around men and motherhood was all in my head.
    — Ruthie Ackerman july 21, Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
  • As courts weigh in, the scarcity of real problems is likely to play a role.
    — Ryan Sparrow, USA Today, 30 June 2021
  • Yet the funding cuts and scarcity of resources are very real.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Now, scarcity of services has forced them into public view to meet their needs.
    — Sydney Brownstone, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2021
  • But Johnson is a stranger to the scarcity mindset.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Most of our conversations were about scarcity and how things were tight.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024

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