Definition: 1. Not enough; hard to find. 2. Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand. 3. By a small margin.
Use 'scarce' in a sentence:
1. It probably would be a good idea if you made yourself scarce.
2. The food was scarce during the war.
3. The management of society's resources is important because resources are scarce.
4. This kind of material is rather scarce.
5. Teaching application on the network application is relatively scarce resources.
6. We should find better ways to make good use of scarce resources.
7. Because oil and natural gas became scarce?
8. Land is a scarce economic resource and its use critical to the process of development.
9. By doing so, they can optimize the value of scarce IT dollars and concentrate efforts on developing software features that provide the greatest business benefit.
10. Go back in history and this was part of our survival repertoire; like most animals, we drew on our sense of smell, when visual information was scarce, to single out prey.
11. It sometimes requires the reader to tolerate unpleasantness or annoyance — as, for example, when he reads of the threatening foreign situation, the mounting national debt, rising taxes, falling market, scarce housing, and cancer.
12. Executives are the most important and scarce human resources.
13. Premature retirement even with a golden handshake can well lead to extensive frustration and waste of scarce human resources.
14. Scarce water resources are shared between states who cannot trust each other.
15. As economy is declining, jobs available to the young continue to be scarce.
16. Countries that need oil are clawing at each other to lock up scarce supplies, and are willing to deal with any government, no matter how unpleasant, to do it.
17. that the most efficient way to use scarce road space.
18. Changes of topsoil P contents were gently in the trial orchard during the whole year, P contents were 0.2%~ 0.3%, and in the state of scarce;
19. Furthermore, most species do not depend entirely on a single resource, if the major resource for a species becomes scarce, the species can usually shift to alternative resources.
20. And there's no worry about wasted fuel on occasions when fish are scarce.
21. Jobs are becoming increasingly scarce.
22. Instead, it may cause damage by replicating itself and taking up scarce resources, such as disk space, CPU time, or network connections.
23. Economists fear that within the next 100 to 150 years, the earth's resources will become very scarce.
24. They scarce ever had their stomachs full in their lives.
25. Th' trouble is that sometimes they can scarce keep from burstin' out laughin'.
26. As economy is declining, jobs available to the young, continue to be scarce.
27. This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources.
28. I can scarce remember him.
29. In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
30. However, toward the end of the eighteenth century, as British oak supplies grew scarce, shipbuilders there turned to teak and found in it an ideal substitute.
31. However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.
32. Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives.
33. It may be that males can use scarce carotenoids either for immune defense and detoxification or for attracting females.
34. However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources ．
35. Time is scarce, so what do we do?
36. It was argued that once hunter-gatherers had occupied the whole world, the population started to grow everywhere and food became scarce; agriculture would have been a solution to this problem.
37. He curls his tail, and, gazing earnestly. He speaks so soft, scarce whispering each word:
38. Details of the accident are scarce.
39. Hospital beds were scarce and medicines were practically non-existent.
40. Jobs in manufacturing are relatively scarce but I keep my ear to the ground.
41. As trees became scarce and they could no longer construct wooden canoes for fishing, they ate birds.
42. Bear in mind that gas stations are scarce in the more remote areas.
43. In college, time is scarce, and consequently, very precious.
44. When a thing is scarce, it is precious.
45. Food was becoming scarce.
46. Food was scarce and expensive.
47. How did diatoms survive if zinc is so scarce?
48. Fresh food is so scarce that prices have rocketed.
49. If more than one species is competing for a scarce resource, the competing species usually switch to different alternative resources.
50. Bear in mind that petrol stations are scarce in the more remote areas.
