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'shortage' in a sentence

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shortage noun

: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

: an acute insufficiency


  • The monastery closed after 900 years due to a shortage of monks.
  • We have an abundance of bread, but a shortage of wine.
  • In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.
  • There's no shortage of work.
  • There's no shortage of toilet paper.
  • The recent coffee shortage brought about many problems.
  • Violence erupted all over the city because of the food shortages.
  • The shortage of manpower poses a big problem for us.
  • Because of a shortage of work, half the staff was discharged.
  • The severe housing shortage is partly to blame for the inflated rents.
  • There's no shortage of food now.
  • Despite a shortage of steel, industrial output has increased by five percent.
  • There's no shortage of possible suspects.
  • Owing to a shortage of funds, our project failed.
  • In 2010, there was a shortage of H1N1 vaccine.
  • There's no shortage of rocks.
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