On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Dearth. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as famine or shortage and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Dearth in a sentence
Dearth meaning
- A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
- Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
- Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
Synonyms of Dearth
Using Dearth
- The main meaning on this page is: A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. | Scarcity; a lack or short supply. | Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
- Useful related words include: famine, shortage, lack, deficiency.
- In the example corpus, dearth often appears in combinations such as: dearth of, the dearth, and dearth.
Context around Dearth
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dearth
- In this selection, "dearth" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, roth stand out and add context to how "dearth" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alleviate the dearth of bilingual and buffett s dearth was announced. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dearth" sits close to words such as actionable, adopts and airwaves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dearth
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The dearth of local primary sources doesn’t help. (9 words)
Buffett’s dearth was announced on his social media pages. (10 words)
Denver will see a glut of apartments followed by a dearth, Roth predicted. (13 words)
Tamora Pierce, a devoted fan of The Lord of the Ringsher favorite genre stories had such a dearth of heroines, "I tried to write the kind of thing I was reading, with one difference: the books I loved were missing teenaged girl warriors. (43 words)
December 19 - Bloomberg (Michael Sasso): "US new-home construction unexpectedly surged in November to a six-month high, benefiting from a dearth of existing houses on the market and suggesting the crunch in residential real estate is easing. (38 words)
Homeless people face a number of barriers to getting the help, including a dearth of available housing and a safety net system that isn’t always designed to meet their needs. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Additionally, the survey highlights the dearth of general practitioners for both adults and children, as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.
Altman reportedly lamented that the dearth of computing power has resulted in subpar API availability and has obstructed OpenAI from rolling out larger “context windows” for ChatGPT.
Buffett’s dearth was announced on his social media pages.
But it's overall just a timing year where we anticipate to build to be a bit below one, but no dearth of opportunities out there.
But the dearth of affordable options coupled with excess Facebook scams has made the process frustrating.
California, similar to other states, has a variety of programs to try to alleviate the dearth of bilingual education teachers, including partnerships with Mexico and Spain.
December 19 - Bloomberg (Michael Sasso): "US new-home construction unexpectedly surged in November to a six-month high, benefiting from a dearth of existing houses on the market and suggesting the crunch in residential real estate is easing.
Denver will see a glut of apartments followed by a dearth, Roth predicted.
Given the dearth of transaction activity, office asset pricing is difficult to determine.
Homeless people face a number of barriers to getting the help, including a dearth of available housing and a safety net system that isn’t always designed to meet their needs.
However, a dearth of new orders means the rate of production growth is very subdued, and likely to deteriorate in coming months unless sales improve.
It hasn't been helped by the dearth of options particularly on free transfers.
It would be too much to call it the death of diplomacy, but there certainly is a dearth of diplomacy for now.
Our dearth of educational freedom consigns kids from poor families to failing schools.
Still, there's no dearth of notable distinctions between the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro series models.
Tamora Pierce, a devoted fan of The Lord of the Ringsher favorite genre stories had such a dearth of heroines, "I tried to write the kind of thing I was reading, with one difference: the books I loved were missing teenaged girl warriors.
The dearth of local primary sources doesn’t help.
The dearth of options reinforces the centuries-old view that pregnancy prevention is ‘a woman’s responsibility'.
The governor said that Dennis Osadebay University was in a more critical state due to the dearth of infrastructure on the campus, saying his administration would change the narrative.
There is a dearth of literature to identify the barriers faced by disabled people interested in politics at all levels.
Common combinations with dearth
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dearth of 137×
- the dearth 45×
- and dearth 14×
- no dearth 12×
- is dearth 7×
- with dearth 4×
- from dearth 3×
- was dearth 3×
- that dearth 3×
- relative dearth 3×