in short supply

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in short supply 的定义

  1. Less than is needed, lacking. For example, Skilled operators were in short supply, or The hotels are all full, and beds are in short supply. [First half of 1900s]

in short supply 近义词

in short supply

等同于 scarce

更多in short supply例句

  1. Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.
  4. In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.
  5. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
  6. First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
  7. What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?
  8. Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
  9. Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
  10. You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.