Use "scantiness" in a sentence

1. They got to the hospital in under an hour due to his driving and the scantiness of the road

2. ” He took the purse, poured the hoard into his palm, and chuckled over it as if its scantiness amused him

3. But the reports sent in at night by the commanders of the various army corps as to the disordered condition of the different divisions, and above all as to the scantiness of ammunition, caused him to change his plans

4. But in the convict's status there are elements of horror before which all other horrors pale, even the mud and filth everywhere about, the scantiness and uncleanness of the food, the irons on your limbs, the suffocating sense of being always held tight, as in a vice