sparse
IPA: spˈɑrs
verb
- (obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.
adjective
- Having widely spaced intervals.
- Not dense; meager; scanty
- (mathematics) Having few nonzero elements
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Examples of "sparse" in Sentences
- The article was sparse and overtly biased.
- The rest of the area is sparsely populated.
- The amount of food in the region was sparse.
- In the dry zone, vegetation is sparse and stunted.
- The early history of the town is sparsely documented.
- The production of the play is very limited and sparse.
- Forest is sparse and consists of craggy pine and birch.
- Evidence of the School in the subsequent centuries is sparse.
- The curtain was a sparse and heterogeneous set of detachments.
- The problem is that the data are sparse and hard to interpret.
- We spent the rest of the day experimenting with a swim frog in sparse patches, which produced several chases and a couple of bites.
- I chatted with a DNR wildlife biologist responsible for NW GA a couple of weeks ago looking for hogs and he advised that they remain sparse in that section of the state.
- Heaps may be the favorite, though Nelson -- who mostly handed off or ran in sparse duty last season -- has the experience edge and also may have the confidence of current players.
- He said the court's order, which he described as "sparse," potentially leaves the door open for the governor to return with a more-specific letter spelling out reasons for removal.
- Thank you for the review, March mentioned you'd done this - I agree with all re the previous ones - minimal, coldness are excellent descriptions - I used the word sparse earlier to March.
- M.I.A. Hip-hop electro, Jamaican dancehall, Brazilian baile funk, South Asian bhangra — Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., draws on all of them in sparse, noisy, low-fi groove tracks that sound like they come from some imagined third world street.
- It's a piece of quiet virtuosity — Carter spends more time than most composers would exploring the instrument's low range, and much of the middle sections, both slow and fast, are an exercise in sparse lontano orchestration, the interplay between horn and orchestra seeming to come from very far away.