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

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

  • They suffer from destruction of basic infrastructures, shortage of utilities such as electricity, and hunger.  - Safe Area Goražde
  • The company that owns the arcology tows icebergs in, solving the water shortage for all Southern Californians.  - Oath of Fealty (novel)
  • Approximately half of all known reserves are on the Moon, and a shortage of Di-Corellium would cause serious problems for the WEC.  - Crusader: No Regret
  • Tulkinghorn is murdered, with no shortage of suspects.  - Bleak House (2005 TV serial)
  • On Day 100, there is a shortage of food and Guevara exercises discipline to resolve conflicts between his Cuban and Bolivian followers.  - Che (2008 film)
  • However, there is still a shortage of pilots, so the company is forced to use prisoners.  - Moon 44
  • The film tells the story of bank teller Mike Donovan (Sullivan) who failed to report a $49,000 shortage from his drawer.  - Loophole (1954 film)
  • However, when a shortage of bodies leaves their mentor in need, they are sent to a country churchyard to exhume a recently buried woman.  - The Body Snatcher
  • However, due to a shortage of juicing crops, he also finds and uses some of their "personal vegetables".  - D'oh-in' in the Wind
  • The victims all have bite marks and a shortage of blood, which leads to the case being known as "The Vampire Case".  - Descendants of Darkness
  • Due to the shortage of troops, her fellow soldiers include a vampire named Maladict, a Troll named Carborundum, and an Igor named Igor.  - Monstrous Regiment (novel)
  • The threat posed by the Horde meant that there was never a shortage of volunteers willing to give up their lives defending mankind.  - Strikeforce: Morituri
  • Due to the shortage of time, the World Council gave both teams one Earth year to create working prototypes of the respective projects.  - Outlive
  • One complication is a compounding of the food shortage when the town is flooded by refugees from the war.  - 1632 (novel)
  • Dowding ends the debate noting a critical shortage of pilots, wearily remarking, "We're fighting for survival, and losing".  - Battle of Britain (film)
  • as an adviser on the housing shortage and finds that his hotel suite will not be available for two days.  - The More the Merrier

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