scarceness
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
All the more might it be so in view of its scarceness, from the first.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson
Applied to food, dearth = scarceness; dainty = choice, delicious.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser
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 Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
There's a number o' machines hier the day, Messis McTarvish, an' a wonderfu' crood; there'll be a bit scarceness ower on yon side, but a gey many a'thegither.
From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various
