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How to use dearth in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun, verb

Dearth means a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. Example: “The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.”

Examples of dearth by meaning

nounScarcity; a lack or short supply.

  • A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.1956 May, C. H. Betts, “St. Pancras Tunnel Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 320
  • Similarly, at Cambridge, I observe what I had seen elsewhere - the dearth of tourists.2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in RAIL, page 50
  • The dearth of A.I. chips has been exacerbated because Nvidia, a longtime provider of the chips, has a virtual lock on the market.2023 August 16, Erin Griffith, “The Desperate Hunt for the A.I. Boom’s Most Indispensable Prize”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

More sentences with dearth

  • The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.From the entry historicity
  • The president lamented that his nation's human capital is woefully underexploited owing to a dearth of financial capital with which to start and expand businesses.From the entry underexploit
  • The president lamented that his nation's abundant sunshine is woefully underexploited owing to a dearth of financial capital with which to buy and install thousands of new solar panels.From the entry underexploit
  • There, in this engineered quietude, the dearth of sound grows profound, rendering the space uncannily alien.2026 June 29, A. S. Bariwch, The Senses: Perception and Experience (Cambridge Elements: Elements in Philosophy of Mind), Cambridge…. From the entry quietude
  • However, there is dearth of literature which discusses about the biovalorization of agro-industrial wastes into specialty biochemicals.2013, Satinder Kaur Brar, Gurpreet Singh Dhillon, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals…. From the entry biovalorization
  • Moreover, Chavacano, especially the Temate dialect, is suffering from a dearth of publications.2004, Chan Sin-wai, editor, Translation and Bilingual Dictionaries, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry Chavacano
  • Nest boxes were erected across the island to supplement the dearth of natural hollows.2002, Philip Gibbons, David Lindenmayer, “The Role of Nest Boxes in Research and Management”, in Tree Hollows and Wildlife Conservation in…. From the entry morepork
  • At present there is a dearth of older dying and decaying material.1985, Nicholas Smart, John Andrews, Birds and Broadleaves Handbook: A Guide to Further the Conservation of Birds in Broadleaved Woodland…. From the entry doddard
  • Then there was no dearth of venture capital to provide freeball pilots for the market.1970, Federal Communications Commission Reports. From the entry freeball
  • They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry herebefore
  • Like Pop III stars, Pop II stars contain a relative dearth of heavy elements; however, they do contain some.2019 November 9, Jake Parks, “The universe's first supernovae spewed jets of material into nearby galaxies”, in Astronomy Magazine…. From the entry Pop II
  • Back and forth we struggle, from dearth to sterility.2017, Traumear, Beck, page 283. From the entry preponder
  • Yet the dearth of eye-glassed prime ministers suggest it is a point that politicians might want to consider.2008 February 23, Glen McGregor, “Canadian voters don’t give passes to politicians who always wear glasses”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa…. From the entry eye-glassed
  • The dearth of new British cars grows dearthier.1915, The Bystander, volume 47, page 142. From the entry dearthy
  • On June 12th The Economist’s pages featured an activist investor “honing in on the dearth of energy experience” on a company’s board.2021 July 15, “Sometimes solecisms can reveal linguistic ingenuity”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry solecism
  • There’s no dearth of two-step and zydeco rhythm on “Alligator Purse” (Yep Roc), an upbeat new release by BeauSoleil, the pacesetting Cajun-revivalist band.2009 January 18, Nate Chinen, “Sonic Adventures, From a Cappella to Zydeco”, in New York Times. From the entry pacesetting
  • She is lovely, but there is a serious dearth of information about these little jewels, at least in this neck of the weeds.1996 October 2, Cougar Ridge Vineyards, “grass parakeets”, in rec.pets.birds (Usenet). From the entry pair-bond
  • Insofar as induced intraoral and extraoral chromatosis are concerned, there is a relative dearth of instances in which tatooing has been accomplished.1965, C.D. Dummett, “Induced Chromatosis: The Tattoo”, in Quarterly Journal of the National Dental Association, volume 24, page 50. From the entry chromatosis
  • Between rising populations, climate change, a dearth of fresh water and stretched bio-capacity, just avoiding widespread famine by the middle of this century would represent an astonishing achievement.2020, Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry postscarcity
  • In time Getz took up the slack left by the dearth of commercial presenters and took a flutter on big-name artists in mid-career, often in the Orpheum.2019 August 28, David Gordon Duke, “Classical music: Vancouver Recital Society celebrates 40 years going strong”, in Vancouver Sun. From the entry take a flutter
  • Brinton University of British Columbia, Canada The dearth of real-time studies of the histories of transatlantic English varieties can be attributed to the lack of readily accessible, electronic corpora.2015, Marina Dossena, Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry cane
  • Because of the dearth of recent feminist writing about conditions in mental institutions, it's possible for us to image that they must have improved since the mid-'70s.1990 August 31, Amy Hoffman, “"Crazy" Or Just Crazy?”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 11. From the entry malignancy

Meaning of dearth

  1. noun A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
  2. noun Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
  3. noun Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

Full definition of dearth

Questions about dearth in a sentence

How do you use dearth in a sentence?
Dearth is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.”
What is a short sentence with dearth?
“The dearth of new British cars grows dearthier.”
What does dearth mean?
Dearth means a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

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