These pamphlets came into my hands at a time when work was getting scarcer every day and a million men like myself were moving about the country looking for jobs.
Everyone is saying that Hudson Bay is played out for seal and walrus, while whales are getting scarcer every year," said Mr. Selincourt, who had bought out the old company cheaply because of this growing scarcity.
Narwhal ivory was getting scarcer every year, and the storekeeper at Roaring Water Portage was prepared to pay a very good price indeed for all that he could obtain.
It used to be the case that, where a book was remarkably successful in England, the Dublin booksellers reprinted it, and, as these reproductions are generally scarcer than the originals, doubtless in limited numbers.
Many of thescarcer examples of Bartolozzi have been imitated.
Seriously speaking, the purchase was extravagantly dear, for the book on large paper is at all events not scarcer than on small.
I was thinking to part soon with my earthly covering, for it was a month since I had begun to eat locusts, which now were scarcer and scarcer in the sand.
It is also an indisputable, unaccountable or accountable fact that Grains are becoming scarcer and scarcer.
The following winter food got scarcer and scarcer for both man and beast, and the horses became thinner and thinner.
Food was growing scarcer and scarcer in the South, and it became a serious question not only as to how the army was to be fed, but also the citizens at home, the old men, women and children.
Well, you know, Geraldine, the breath was getting scarcer in my lungs every minute and I hadn't a word to say.
But the nuts grewscarcer and scarcer on the ground and harder to find, for the other squirrels were picking them up too, and then they did not have so far to carry them.
Vegetables and fruit are very plentiful, but butter and eggs are scarcer than in Berlin.
During the year I had my typewriter, typewriters became scarcer and dearer than ever, indeed it was impossible to buy any kind of a second-hand visible typewriter, and the new ones were about 600 marks.
Unhappily these flowers have become much scarcer than they used to be; but in the Hertfordshire fields they are still frequently to be admired.
The bladderwort, reputed common on these marshes, seems to have become much scarcer than it was twenty years back.
Scarcer and scarcer became the food, for the summer had been a summer of fighting; we had conquered and feasted much, hunted little.
Closely allied to the above is Ochrocydus huttoni, which may be at once known by its smaller size and plain elytra; it is very much scarcer than P.
Furthermore, the buffaloes were becoming scarcer and scarcer each year, and it was expedient that we make hay while the sun shone, for soon the sun would be no longer shining in the buffalo business.
At the commencement of the nineteenth century we see them recede gradually in the interior of the country to such an extent that they became day by day scarcer and scarcer about the settlements.
Priests of the old school are becoming scarcer and scarcer every year, but one or two still exist.
Then they resume in leisurely style, for work they will tell you is scarce, and, to their credit be it observed, they show no disposition to make it scarcer still.
When timber becomes scarcer on the reserves we select for ourselves, we want to be free lo take it anywhere on the common.
I saw that the large game was getting scarcer and scarcer, and I feared that the Indians would melt away like snow in spring before the sun.
Food grew scarcer and scarcer until at length there was nothing left but salt bacon, the flesh of mules, rats, and mouldy pea flour.
Building material was scarce in Johannesburg and Pretoria; how much scarcer it must be in Wolmaranstad!
Now there is hardly anything which is not scarcer and dearer in South Africa than in almost any other part of the globe.
Gradually the population diminishes, as work gets scarcer and scarcer.
Of other birds which are becoming scarcer year by year in England, the kingfishers are not uncommon in these parts; you will often see the brilliant little fellow dart past you as you walk by the stream in summer.
There are still a few "little tyrants" in the fields in all parts of England, but they are very much scarcer than was the case fifty years ago.
Sombre coloured species are relatively scarcer than in the Oriental and African regions.
The result is that on the mainland transitional forms are scarcer than on the island.
It has been suggested that this species serves as a model for another and closely allied Pierine, Prioneris sita, a species distinctly scarcer than the Delias.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarcer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
