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
  • An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
    — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Evans has blamed the state for failing to deal with a shortage of long-term centers where youths who have been ordered there by the courts can be treated.
    — Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2024
  • All had severe guard shortages, the staffing data revealed.
    — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And Nemeth did not inform higher-ups in the guard that the staffing shortages had become severe, according to the IG report.
    — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
  • And the state is suffering from a severe shortage of affordable child care.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 13 July 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 shortages of other things children need may also lead to food hoarding, Daigle said.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 21 June 2024
  • The staffing shortage that plagued many police departments across the country appears to be easing for some.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • 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 same is true for the savings in the transportation category of our budget, that savings reflect all of the days that buses didn’t run due to the driver shortage.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 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 impediment then was operational: a lack of personnel to make arrests, a shortage of space to detain people, resistance from Democratic officials at the state and local levels.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Florida has a physician shortage, and primary care is where projections show the situation is worsening.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2024

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