How to use "scarcity" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "scarcity" in popular movie and book plots

  • This compels her to question the scarcity of trees in Mumbai.  - Aisa Yeh Jahaan
  • Things only become worse when a sudden scarcity of hash deprives Figs of his favourite pastime.  - M Cream
  • The scarcity of good blood has incited an underground civil war between various groups of vampires.  - Live Evil (film)
  • A scarcity of food forces Gonsales and Diego to live some miles apart, but Gonsales devises a variety of systems to allow them to communicate.  - The Man in the Moone
  • Its growing scarcity results in the Empire declaring war on the Federation, sparking the Second Europan War.  - Valkyria Chronicles
  • Following a cataclysm, the earth becomes an immense desert in which the scarcity of drinkable water renders it a valuable commodity.  - Agharta (manga)
  • Civil society has reverted to relative chaos due to resource scarcity and poverty.  - Parable of the Sower (novel)
  • The day after that, the local fishermen complain about the scarcity of fish and believe that Pete is the cause.  - Pete's Dragon (1977 film)

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