How can you use scarce in a sentence?

Scarce is an adjective that means rare, scant, infrequent, uncommon, meager, skimpy, or sparse. Example sentence:

When there is too little rainfall, some produce can become scarce and the price will go up quickly.

Scarce can also be an adverb that means hardly, barely, or just. Example sentence:

He was scarce three years old when he learned to read.