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

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

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 Adams, Charles Francis