sparseness

Example Sentences

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Yet the sparseness of Beethoven's sketches made it impossible for symphony experts to go beyond that first movement.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2021

The sparseness of trees and other vegetation near the peaks means that when fires do start in, or move to, those elevations, “they don’t get very big, and they run out of fuel,” Kolden says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2021

That sparseness may have been the result of the speed with which Nicks wrote “Dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020

Cooper says, “He was really spare, and that sparseness had an effect on me.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

This sparseness of personal details strongly confirms the opinion that he had not been to Coloss�.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander