How to Use shortage in a Sentence

shortage

noun

• 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
• And that has contributed to the shortage of starter homes in the United States.
  — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• And the longer the staffing shortages persist, the longer some ATCs risk exhaustion and burnout.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The square footage shortage leaves room for only one tiny bed.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
• The eatery cited staffing shortages as the reason for the closure.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
• But due to shortages, many of them have been unable to access them.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• There’s no shortage of events and sports to wager on in Ohio with the DraftKings sportsbook.
  — Catena Media, al, 16 Dec. 2022
• The city, like many places, is facing a police staffing shortage.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• But the call also offered a glimmer of hope that the chip shortage is starting to ease.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 July 2022
• Haitians are facing shortages of food and medicines, and gangs control roads in and out of the capital.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
• By game’s end, the Patriots had no shortage of reasons to hang their heads high.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• 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
• One of their strategies is to build homes on some of the 650 million acres of federal land as a way to face the housing shortage.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
• The City Council has had an extreme shortage of women members over the past decade.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• TikTok has no shortage of viral dance clips or cat videos.
  — Amber Kallor, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
• The Iron Age ushered in a 300-year drought which contributed to crop shortages and widespread famine.
  — Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
• Without free aid, people in the south are now facing the same kinds of dire shortages as those in the north contended with for months.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 24 May 2024
• The 90 million acres of homegrown corn could be a solution to the supply shortage.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
• 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
• But if the tariffs cause local shortages, prices could spike by more than 30 cents per gallon.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025
• At the end of the day that means more shortages and more outages, and that can contribute to cancellations.
  — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024
• The study also found that our region has a shortage of mental health care workers that could get worse in the future.
  — Kristy Totten, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• There is a shortage of cheery Tennessee high school football news this week.
  — Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• POWs from the Axis powers stayed in several camps in the region and performed a variety of jobs to help fill the manpower shortage created by the war.
  — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2025
• Labor costs, in particular, have ballooned amid staffing shortages and wage hikes, with much of the value siphoned off by contract labor firms.
  — Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025