Sentence Examples

1. I was at the mathematical school, where the master taught his pupils after a method scarce imaginable to us in Europe.
2. They only plant it when they know it will be scarce and command a high price.
3. But elephants are far from cheap in India, where they are becoming scarce, the males, which alone are suitable for circus shows, are much sought, especially as but few of them are domesticated.
4. The spells had become scarce and unreliable, the destinations vague, and the potential risks high.
5. Using special water treatment techniques, they were able to purify and treat a scarce few to create safe drinking water.
6. We all looked on in horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass in through the interstice where scarce a knife-blade could have gone.
7. We set up our blanket well away from the scarce few other beach goers and pinned it down with our basket.
8. Normal people were scarce, though he could see lights in many apartments across the street.
9. Our scarce time together is not worthy of summertime gossip.
10. With food scarce, they overhear a plan to abandon them deep in the forest, but Hänsel has a plan.