Sentence examples for scarce word from inspiring English sources

It reflected the fact that even in a country where electricity and running water are scarce, word of the defeatist hysteria now gripping some in the American political elite has spread.

Many thousands more crammed the city's streets and bars to proclaim those formerly scarce words that are now often repeated: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series.

Mario Soares, the Socialist who served three terms as prime minister and two terms as president after the coup, put it well when he said after hearing of Melo Antunes's death from cancer: "He had enormous influence in the revolution, despite being a discreet figure of scarce words".The Revolution of the Carnations was so called because it occurred when carnations were in flower.

Here he meets Lydia (Seana Kofoed), an unsuccessful short-story writer who makes a living writing for a medical journal (until she got fired, that is: money is as scarce as words are plentiful in the play).

Until recently, the leading candidates have been as scarce as kind words for President Obama.

Words were scarce at a recent Philharmonia rehearsal that featured a piece by the Danish composer Thomas Koppel.

As early as 1679, John Dryden was complaining that "the tongue is so much refined since Shakespeare's time that many of his words are scarce intelligible, and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions that it is as affected as it is obscure".

And though the book is as word-scarce as possible, several graphics do cover writerly topics:.

A scary word, yet an essentially vague abstraction that speaks to more general worries about unfairness, impunity, abuse of power and waste of scarce public funds.

This is important, because however well-intentioned are target rates based exclusively on technical veterinary criteria, only by chance will they approximate to the best use of scarce resources or, in other words, the allocation that maximises people's economic well-being.

Do not overuse words like "rare", "scarce", and "valuable".