sparseness

Example Sentences

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He cautioned that this is “particularly challenging region of the world” to investigate in this kind of study, however, because of a relative sparseness of meteorological data and the complex climatology of the area.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

Yet the sparseness of Beethoven's sketches made it impossible for symphony experts to go beyond that first movement.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 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

Not only was there a deficiency of men, but often so many of the working bullocks were drafted off to the forests for timber haulage, that it left a sparseness of them for agricultural purposes.

From Argentina from a British Point of View by Various