How to Use shortage in a Sentence

shortage

noun
  • The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
    — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • And that has contributed to the shortage of starter homes in the United States.
    — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • There’s been no shortage of doom and gloom predictions from Wall Street since the start of the year.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 4 June 2022
  • And the longer the staffing shortages persist, the longer some ATCs risk exhaustion and burnout.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The first two cans were mixed during a paint shortage in 2022, and the second can didn’t quite match.
    — Rory Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2024
  • The square footage shortage leaves room for only one tiny bed.
    — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The eatery cited staffing shortages as the reason for the closure.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
  • But due to shortages, many of them have been unable to access them.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There’s no shortage of events and sports to wager on in Ohio with the DraftKings sportsbook.
    — Catena Media, al, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The city, like many places, is facing a police staffing shortage.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Because of the shortage of sweet stuff, trick-or-treating wasn't as big of a thing during WWII.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2022
  • But the call also offered a glimmer of hope that the chip shortage is starting to ease.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 July 2022
  • Haitians are facing shortages of food and medicines, and gangs control roads in and out of the capital.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
  • By game’s end, the Patriots had no shortage of reasons to hang their heads high.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Dana Taylor: So first of all, why are there so many crew shortages to begin with?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • In other words, there's no shortage of items to suit your child's style and room aesthetic.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 4 June 2022
  • At the same time, millions of workers have joined or rejoined the work force, helping to ease the labor shortage.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • One of their strategies is to build homes on some of the 650 million acres of federal land as a way to face the housing shortage.
    — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The City Council has had an extreme shortage of women members over the past decade.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • TikTok has no shortage of viral dance clips or cat videos.
    — Amber Kallor, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The Iron Age ushered in a 300-year drought which contributed to crop shortages and widespread famine.
    — Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Without free aid, people in the south are now facing the same kinds of dire shortages as those in the north contended with for months.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • The 90 million acres of homegrown corn could be a solution to the supply shortage.
    — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • Prices at some smaller tender sales and auctions have risen between 5% and 10% in the past week as shortages of some stones start to emerge.
    — Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Plus, the shortage of shots makes the task of getting syphilis numbers down difficult, health officials across the U.S. told the AP.
    — Bymike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 8 Nov. 2023
  • And even with the support of charities, food shortages are common.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But if the tariffs cause local shortages, prices could spike by more than 30 cents per gallon.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The fortunate news, again, is that a widespread shortage is not expected.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Such behavior can put pressure on demand, lead to shortages and stoke inflation, the warn.
    — Anne Marie Drummond Lee, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025

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