How to pronounce scarce
Listen to scarce in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“scarce” in real sentences
913 clips in the index · 203 American · 213 British · 12 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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When resources become scarce.
Census Bureau · hear it here
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scarce— and vital— resources.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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time when resources are scarce?
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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they discovered a scarce population.
US Fish & Wildlife Service · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of scarce. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.