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Example sentences for: sparse

How can you use “sparse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Mutant offspring that were best able to utilize the sparse nutritional residues would survive.
Although these "low resolution" time points are quite sparse, they are representative of the limited sampling rate that is experimentally available.
... Lewis's sparse prose gives her tale the mysterious inexorability of an ancient saga.
From here the coast road ascends very sharply amid sparse, windblown greenery, and the drop seawards can be frighteningly steep.
Although the book offers a good coverage of universal abbreviations, acronyms, and what are these days called “initialisms” in its 27,000 entries and “over” 37,000 definitions and goes into British material quite thoroughly, it is too sparse in its inclusion of American matter to make it of significant usefulness to American users, who should cleave to the De Sola dictionaries of abbreviations.