Example Sentences

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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018

It has been hinted that there was a reason for the scarceness of the plums in the plum-cake.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

A scarceness seven years, or else three months' exile, If not, for three days a pestilence most vile, For one thou must have, there is no remedy.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

This fact, I think, is due to the abundance and cheapness of fuel in earlier, and its growing scarceness and dearness in later, ages.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

Applied to food, dearth = scarceness; dainty = choice, delicious.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund