sparseness
Example Sentences
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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
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
I have already said that the origin of the custom was due to sparseness of settlement, the primitive and frugal habits of the people permitting the practice, and the absence of good means of communication.
From Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England by Charles Francis Adams
