sparsely

Example Sentences

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The Cottonwood fire in a sparsely populated area of southern Utah started Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

These differences made sense given that the environment they live in has much smaller, more sparsely distributed prey than other leopard habitats.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

The first families from outside the islands only settled in 1969, encouraged by the government who feared losing control of the sparsely populated territory.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

It is a sparsely orchestrated and fluidly sung collection that connects cowboy narratives, old and new, with finesse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

I had assumed that the Pacific, but for passing schools of fish, was a sparsely inhabited waste of water.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel