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
However, the sparseness of the population, the isolation of the plantations, the lack of roads made festive gatherings infrequent during the first century of the colony's existence.
From Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
