short supply
Example Sentences
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Patience is in short supply in football these days.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
A frenzy of hiring left labor in short supply, giving workers leverage over bosses for the first time in a generation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
Food, drinking water and medicine are in increasingly short supply, and some surgeries have been put on hold, prompting the United Nations to warn of a humanitarian emergency.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Everything was in short supply: rifles, machine guns, antitank guns, artillery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
They had both hemorrhaged badly, and blood plasma was in short supply our needs being low on the wartime priority list.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
