food shortage in English

lack of food, famine

Use "food shortage" in a sentence

1. Vietnam is suffering from food shortage.

2. He was jittery over food shortage.

3. Harry deserted during the food shortage.

4. In addition, a serious food shortage threatened the region.

5. Children are the first to show signs of malnourishment during a food shortage.

6. A Brexit Passover food shortage is forcing the Jews of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work together

7. Thereafter, we had very acute food shortage and very high rate of inflation because of severe drought.

8. During periods of relative food shortage males tend to move less; dispersion evidently reduces competition for resources.

9. A water flea that is starving in a crowded pond is the victim not of food shortage but of competition.

10. (Nehemiah 5:11) It was cruel to impose this on people already heavily burdened with taxes and a food shortage.

11. Some animals have been created with a remarkable ability to hibernate and survive the harshness of a cold winter and extended periods of food shortage.

12. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.”

13. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.” —Revelation 6:3-8; Matthew 24:3, 7, 8; Luke 21:10, 11.

14. Because it is a death that is unwelcomely thrust upon one by the “long sword” of a tremendous war, by food shortage to the point of famine or by “pestilence,” a contagious disease that spreads over a wide inhabited area, spelling a rapid stoppage of life to its many victims.