scarce

Example Sentences

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For Latinos, representation on screen and behind the camera is scarce.

From Los Angeles Times

“We are in a place to deploy new dollars at a moment where dollars are scarce,” Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, who serves as chair of LACAHSA’s board, said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times

"And how do you make scarce events that actually fans want to follow?"

From BBC

That was partly because the private-credit market dried up, so the “only real other option was FHA,” Gilbukh said, and also because buyers were scarce.

From MarketWatch

Likewise, the Germans regarded their Italian allies during World War II largely as a burden with whom they had to share scarce supplies such as fuel oil.

From The Wall Street Journal