How to Use "dearth" with Example Sentences

1. Farmers have long griped about a dearth of competition .
2. The kindle fire could also help all android tablets solve their biggest problem : a dearth of tablet-specific apps .
3. That certainly suggests a dearth of workers .
4. A dearth of screens is partly to blame .
5. One reason is a dearth of offshore yuan funds in hong kong .