Sentence examples for it scarce from inspiring English sources

Even in places where land seems plentiful, zoning and other land-use regulations have made it scarce.

It is a brief episode, "so short that it scarce deserves to be called a chapter at all," as W. M. Thackeray writes in "Vanity Fair".

Mindful of what can happen when the glow wears off, BMW is hoping to keep the Mini desirable by keeping it scarce.

It provided kerosene a substitute to whale oil in lamps, the main source of artificial light, as overexploitation had made it scarce and costly.

Power seeks to enclose beauty to make it scarce, controlled.

I personally value honesty a lot because I find it scarce nowadays.

Sponsorship can get them there.Third, rights holders have realised that they own something scarce, and are doing their best to make it scarcer still.

I was told that it only went up when protests on the Colombian side blockaded roads, making it scarcer".

The laws of economic gravity suggest capital should flow from where it is abundant to where it is scarce.

In Victoria, where it is otherwise scarce, it is locally more common at Corner Inlet and Gippsland Lakes.

But I find a darker image insistent: of a frenzied world chasing its tail even as it devours scarce resources.