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

It felt like old times, even with the sparseness of the audience.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2020

And thanks to the comparative sparseness and decentralization of its population it was far less vulnerable to attack.

From The Ambassador by Merwin, Sam