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

He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

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

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

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund

This creed has been amplified into a song, which we shall quote presently, more for its being a good conceite than for its scarceness.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831 by Various