Sentence examples for now scarce from inspiring English sources

As a result, foreign exchange is now scarce.

Fuel is now scarce, and food has grown costly.

When her father objected, the Mai-Mai slit his throat.In Kivu, cattle are now scarce, yet livestock prices have plummeted.

Cod, once so plentiful off the coast of Newfoundland that they could be scooped up in baskets, are now scarce.

At present 85,000 new cancer patients are diagnosed each year, requiring chemotherapy and radiotherapy which are now scarce.

Though petrol is now scarce, except at (state-run) dollars-only filling stations, Havana's once almost carless streets are often choked.

He produced life-sized prints of his earlier photographs, fastened them to large panels, and then placed the panels at locations at the forlorn interstices of Africa's uncontrolled development — garbage dumps, building sites, quarries, factory yards — places where animals once roamed but are now scarcer than U.F.O.s.

Last year he wrote in Foreign Policy that now-scarce food contributes to revolution and upheaval in the developing world.

The guilt engendered by the exponentially multiplying instances of "No!" squeezed satisfaction from a now-scarce crop of yeses.

The reasoning is that we all share the sky, and so as the now-scarce resource becomes valuable, we should all be given our share.

The best is now increasingly scarce and costly, frighteningly so.