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
Still, if scarceness is an element of value, these things should be precious.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
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
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
It was specially disastrous because it was accompanied by times of scarceness and by changes connected with a revolution in agriculture which pressed heavily on many of the poorer classes.
From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole
