sparse

In a sentence

Six example sentences with sparse, each labelled with its topic.

• Above the treeline the vegetation turns sparse, and a walker can see every cairn for two kilometers ahead.

  Travel

• The crowd was sparse for the Tuesday tip off, maybe four hundred people rattling around an arena built for twenty thousand.

  Basketball

• Rural coverage stayed sparse, with one mast every forty kilometers and long stretches of highway showing no signal at all.

  Technology

• The arrangement is sparse, just a bass note and a brushed snare under the voice for the whole first verse.

  Music

• Trees grow sparse on the windward slope, with twenty meters of bare rock between one stunted pine and the next.

  Environment

• Her late paintings are sparse, a single line of blue on white with most of the canvas left untouched.

  Art

Found in these word lists

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