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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'got scarce' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something that was once plentiful has become much less available. For example, "Once the pandemic hit, masks and hand sanitizer got scarce almost overnight."
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"Then it got scarce".
Air got scarce, because we liked to light up cigars we'd buy at the Handy Stop.
But it would be a public health tragedy if panicky citizens at no special risk got scarce doses of vaccine best reserved for the sick and elderly.
As money got scarce in the 1970s, he found himself "switching from making paintings to using whatever I could fuckin' find.
In a modern capitalist economy, he said, the trees "would get very valuable as they got scarce, and the person with the property rights would harvest them at an economically reasonable rate".
As the boom went bust, opportunities to get rich got scarce.
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By my count, this is the ninth time since August that the Fed has done something aimed at helping out as credit got scarcer.
Tales of furtive meetings between friends and their "agents" at McDonald's with money stuffed in envelopes slid across the table made the rounds, foreigners who actually lived in the city got scarcer and scarcer, and I took to jokingly referring to Mary as my new girlfriend.
Fuel is getting scarce.
Even fresh air is getting scarce.
"The iron is getting scarce," Mr. Montoucet said.
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