How to Use shortage in a Sentence

shortage

noun
Definition of shortagenext
Synonyms for shortagenext
  • The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • But due to shortages, many of them have been unable to access them.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Dana Taylor: So first of all, why are there so many crew shortages to begin with?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • 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
  • The Iron Age ushered in a 300-year drought which contributed to crop shortages and widespread famine.
    — Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • All had severe guard shortages, the staffing data revealed.
    — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The strains of an acute staffing shortage led to tensions between the unions and Kaiser executives in the run-up to the contract’s expiration.
    — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But, a recent report found that in the event of a Line 5 shutdown, the energy market could adapt without shortages or price hikes.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Dead The idea to bring volunteer chaplains into schools as a solution to the state’s counselor shortage did not make it out of the Statehouse this year.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In Ojai, the housing shortage has been compounded by strict slow-growth laws, which — along with a ban on chain stores — were intended to maintain the small-town charm.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • New York City is facing a housing shortage that has increased rents and rates of homelessness.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Staffing shortages and funding challenges are not unique to the San Diego Police Department.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Medicines and drugs, before this escalation, were at 48% and 29% shortages.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Protests have erupted in Cuba over energy and food shortages, with calls growing for the military to side with the people and for the Communist regime to come to an end.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The news comes while Arizona faces a deep shortage of health care workers as its population continues to boom.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2023
  • Cardoso Botelho says long waits for construction licenses — eight years for one of his lots — has caused the severe shortage.
    — Henrique Almeida, Fortune Europe, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But according to Yahoo Finance, there's still a talent shortage due to skills shortage.
    — Rachel Wells, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The enormous amount of land and labor devoted to forestry had led to food shortages, and arguments had broken out; some farmers had simply refused to plant the trees.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • That figure plummeted at the height of the computer chip shortage to just 30-50 vehicles during some months.
    — Tom Krisher, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But small airports and the regional carriers that are at the core of their traffic have been hit hard by rising costs and a national pilot shortage.
    — Beth Treffeisen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Child care advocates have voiced concerns about making providers foot the bill, as many are already facing staffing shortages, with much of the workforce struggling to earn a livable wage.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Many Gazans are living in squalid conditions, with shortages of food, water and fuel, and medical care is scarce for the growing number of injured and sick.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In an effort to address the shortage, the government even proposed raising its cap on working hours to 69 per week, up from the limit of 52 – until a backlash among young workers forced them to walk back the plan.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As many as 240 could be reassigned to street-level patrols to make up for staffing shortages in other commands, the paper reported.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Those with the most acute labor shortages, such as health care and local government, are at comparatively low risk.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • This isn't the first year there has been more demand than supply for lifeguards, but across the country, states and municipalities are facing their worst shortages on record.
    — Elise Preston, CBS News, 3 June 2023
  • At the river’s end, amid the irrigated fields of the fertile Rio Grande Valley, farmers have lost crops midseason in recent years due to water shortages.
    — Dylan Baddour, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2024

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