sparseness

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, the script’s sparseness too often bleeds into the dialogue which, at times, sounds remarkably wan.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2022

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

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

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

Nor is this sparseness incidental, as in North America, to the early days of settlement.

From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount