James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Scottish Poet

Yo-Yo Ma

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

American Musician

Rutger Bregman

While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary in places where housing is scarce - a basic income would work like venture capital for the people.

Dutch Historian

Robert Green Ingersoll

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

American Lawyer

Emmeline Pankhurst

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

English Activist

Elbert Hubbard

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

American Writer

Amanda Gorman

When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.

American Poet

Zachary Taylor

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

American President

Josh Billings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

American Comedian

Nick Carter

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

Often used in economics to discuss limited resources or supply.

Economic Context

Indicates a critical shortage, suggesting urgent action or concern.

Urgency or Need

Describes elements of nature that are not abundant.

Natural Occurrences

While still understood, it's not commonly used as an adverb in modern English.

Historical Usage

To emphasize the difficulty or unlikeliness of an action or event.

Literal Emphasis

Mostly found in older texts, poetry, or literary works.

Old Literature

 supermarket in the world packed for the lantern fish which is their primary prey here but my favorite part is the crash when the chicks of five weeks old their parents leave them in a kindergarten food becomes scarce during the winter so both of the parents have to go out into the open ocean to hunt depending on

Go Inside an Antarctic...

 For the rest of the year, when sunlight is scarce, the increased moisture and clouds actually warm the surface by trapping the Earth's heat, turning the feedback loop positive for all but a couple of months. While negative feedback loops encourage stability by pushing a system towards equilibrium,

Why the Arctic is...

 But they're the exception. Most deep-sea creatures are confined to a narrow range in the water column where nutrients are scarce since the food drifting downwards from the surface rapidly sinks to the sea floor. Plunging all the way down, we find more exotic creatures.

The otherworldly...

 food is so scarce that more than two adults are needed to search for it if a nest full of chicks is to be kept supplied this bird is not the parent of these nestlings it's one of last year's chicks who has stayed on to help raise this year's brood

Unbelievable Bird...

 a sum of cosmos units proportional to the country's trade deficit, or indeed to a country's trade surplus. And imagine that that fund is utilized to invest in green technologies, especially in parts of the world where investment funding is scarce.

Capitalism will eat...

 And in regions where large-scale systems are unavailable, or where water has been contaminated further along its journey, these systems can mean the difference between life and death. Clean water remains a precious and often scarce commodity.

When is water safe to...

 Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is saltwater. How about we use that? Combine that with number three. Do not use arable land. Because crops are already growing on that land that's very scarce around the world.

Bilal Bomani: Plant...

 calories were scarce, and there was nothing to anticipate that this would later change so quickly. So, evolution proceeds blindly, step by step by step, creating all of the diversity we see in the natural world.

Myths and misconceptions...

 spent much of his life in a boat just off our coast since his father taught him to fish over the next three hours we got three small fish fish he explained were scarce fishers regularly used illegal methods

Protecting the ocean for...

 peace adelies usually have two chicks each and the most aggressive one is always fed first as the pack eye shrinks food is scarce skewers are particularly alert to weak

Scarce

Not enough or just barely enough; deficient in quantity or number.

Often appears as...

Only just; hardly.

Often appears as...

Economic Context

Urgency or Need

Natural Occurrences

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