Scarce is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCARCE in dictionary:

VERB:
• Alt. of Scarcely
ADVERB:
• scarcely
• only a very short time before
ADJECTIVE:
• in short supply
• (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand
• occurring in small numbers or quantities; rare
• insufficient to meet demand
• deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• infrequently seen or found

Words related to SCARCE

scarcely15 scarceness14 scarcer11 scarcest12

Words that contain SCARCE

scarcer11 scarcely15 scarcest12 scarcement16 scarceness14 scarcements17 scarcenesses16

How to use SCARCE in a sentence

• Food was scarce and many went without it for days, while sleep was impossible as the throng trudged westward.
• I confess, in discourses where we seek rather pleasure and delight than information and improvement, such ornaments as are borrowed from them can scarce pass for faults.
• They are so far from a capacity of being packed up and sent beyond sea, they will scarce endure to be transported by hand from this room to the next.
• Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close.
• Even those, who owed all their riches to their own industry, could scarce ground their acquisitions upon a better title.
• The water, too, was scarce, and anything but sweet.
• There is scarce a sensible auditor in the Kingdom that has not since that time had occasion to laugh at the several instances of it.
• Literature has been very scarce on board, and I had only brought one book with me.
• The wolf slept long and hard and late, And woke so thirsty he scarce could wait.
• Straightway to the town they led Him for whose life they scarce had dared to hope.
• The elk and buffaloe are in great abundance, but the deer have become scarce.
• The bewildered Walther scarce knew whether he was awake or asleep, but at length it was borne in upon him that someone had won great triumphs in his name.
• This must render money scarce, and make the people uneasy.
• These errors would never have arisen had there been a more free access to this very scarce book.
• Forage for horses was, however, getting very scarce, and the poor beasts suffered greatly.
• I thought seriously upon the subject, and felt what had scarce occurred to me before, how degrading it was to be enslaved by a habit so ignoble.
• Men were scarce in Paris, particularly men of military age.
• And almost ere I was aware the Red Axe flashed as it swept full circle with scarce a pause, but it took the head of a man with it on its way.
• The surprise was complete, and with scarce a blow struck they found themselves in possession.
• We procured a supply of provisions from the estates of these volunteers, and the number of our companions increased daily, but horses were scarce and dear.
• Soon gold and silver grew scarce, and those who had any promptly hid it.
• He lay perfectly still, scarce daring to draw his breath, and the next moment a strange thing happened.

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