7 sentences with 'scarce'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scarce and other words derived from it.
• « With scarce forces but with great audacity and skill, Fernandez de Cordoba managed to defeat the enemy. »
• « Blood, a vital and, for the moment, irreplaceable tissue, is becoming a scarce commodity in hospitals that needs to be rationed, avoiding unnecessary transfusions. »
• « Population growth is one of humanity's most pressing concerns, especially in underdeveloped countries where birth rates are higher and resources are scarce. But how has the world's population been growing? »
• « They have been known to eat chicken and honey when bamboo is scarce, but in the wild, bamboo is the panda's main food. And since it is a very poor source of nutrition and difficult for them to digest, they must consume it in prodigious quantities. »
• « However, due to scarce feeding grounds, poaching attacks and other catastrophes, only two panda cubs are likely to reach adulthood. »
• « Just when he was beginning to regret his venture (the data was rather scarce and already known), he had his great reward: he discovered two specimens of a tiny animal that was thought to be extinct: the "dwarf hairy-eared lemur" (Allocebus trichotis, for science). »
• « When the Europeans arrived at the time of the conquest and colonisation, the aboriginal population was very scarce in Argentina. Most of them adapted and mixed with the conquistadors, forming an important part of the population, which lives mainly in the northern, western and central provinces of the country. »