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

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

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund

Next to the Biblioth�que Nationale, this library is said to contain the most printed books and manuscripts, which are valuable on account of their antiquity, scarceness, and preservation.

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

There was a great scarceness of lead for bullets; and to supply that need the leaden sashes, in which window-panes were at that time set, were melted down.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

It would be too tedious to dwell on the beauty, merit, and scarceness of these stones, as well as on their finished workmanship and degree of antiquity.

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