make scarce

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

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025

He likened AAA's crop reduction to chinch bugs, boll weevils and locusts which make scarce "the things for which millions are nightly praying."

From Time Magazine Archive

They serve but to consume, make scarce, and enhance the price of both supplies and money, and to cause uneasiness, fears, and distrust.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

No matter what advances you might make, scarce a glance or a tail-wag would you get for your pains.

From Stickeen by John Muir

But they are mostly far apart, and make scarce any mark in general views.

From The Mountains of California by John Muir