scarcer

例句:

• Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.
  军队很缺鞋和衣服, 武器供应和药品就更少了.
  
• As oil gets scarcer and more expensive, nature gas will become more and more important.
  随着石油的匮乏和价格上涨, 天然气就会变得越来越重要.
  
• Its resources were scarce before and pollution has made clean water scarcer.
  中国缺乏水资源,而污染让清洁水变得更稀缺.
  
• With the pipes broken, water was the scarcer commodity.
  来自NEWYORKER
• Europe remains lossmaking, though the red ink is scarcer than it was.
  来自THETIMES
• They were hunted harder, and became scarcer, and their value rose.
  来自NEWYORKER