sparseness
Example Sentences
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He cautioned that this is “particularly challenging region of the world” to investigate in this kind of study, however, because of a relative sparseness of meteorological data and the complex climatology of the area.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023
I’m drawn to the sparseness of the West because that’s where I’ve spent most of my life.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Yet the sparseness of Beethoven's sketches made it impossible for symphony experts to go beyond that first movement.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2021
That sparseness may have been the result of the speed with which Nicks wrote “Dreams.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
Owing to the sparseness of the population there was little danger of dispute as to boundaries, and this segregation in the majority of cases had been neglected before our acquisition of the country.
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Johnson Field
