Sentence example with the word 'scarce'

scarce

almost unheard-of, chintzy, few, insufficient, occasional, poor, scattered, seldom seen, slim, sprinkled, uncommon

Definition adv. only a very short time before

Last update: April 29, 2017


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Food soon became scarcer and more expensive.   [verb]

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She would scarce foot it from London to Dover.   [adjective]

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She gave me to know as much by a hundred signs and tokens which read plain enough now, looking back, but which I scarce heeded at the time.   [adjective]

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Water was still scarce, so the white chrysanthemums in the jar she held were no doubt drinking part of her personal ration.   [noun]

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Primary sources, numbingly copious in some areas, are scarce and fragmentary in others.   [verb]

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"Ay, ay; when food is scarce, and when food is plenty, a wolf grows bold," said the unmoved scout.   [adjective]

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The world is so sunk in wickedness that murder scarce counts for crime.   [adjective]

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"You would scarce find the tent of the Frenchman with the hair on your head"; said the blunt scout.   [adjective]

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