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28 examples of Sparsely in a sentence

The entire county is home to just 20,000 people, and they're very sparsely distributed.
In selecting a subject in which to conduct original research, or to develop world-class expertise, take a part of the chosen discipline that is sparsely inhabited.
I think a lot of people actually understand this anecdotally, but in order to visualize just how sparsely our planet is collected, some friends and I put together a dataset of the 30 million pictures that have been gathered by these satellites between 2000 and 2010.
Patients often have to travel long distances to get to their nearest hospital, and access to hospital care is becoming more and more an issue in rural areas, in the US, but also in sparsely populated countries like Sweden.
Incredibly dull scenes were broken up too sparsely by good wholesome cheap porn and entertaining dream horror sequences.
These episodes highlight the complexity of the Middle East’s changing geopolitical landscape, the fragility of Egypt’s post-Mubarak political order, and the explosive potential of Sinai, which, though sparsely populated, includes Egypt’s borders with Israel and the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
Some might expect that, nearly 30 years later, the area around the reactor remains a wasteland, sparsely populated by genetically damaged animals exposed to chronic radiation across multiple generations.
Resource rich but sparsely populated Siberia is bordered by resource-deficient but teeming and rising China.
One way out of the dilemma could be to allow higher sulfur emissions in sparsely populated areas where the soil is not vulnerable to acidification.
It was allowed to fly for about half an hour over southern Israel before being shot down by the Israeli air force over a sparsely populated area.
After a regional military force pushed the group into sparsely populated mountains and forests, immunization workers were provided access to previously rebel-controlled areas.
But they appear only sparsely anywhere in such rankings, if even at all.
It is a stirring tale of audacity and enterprise, which included innovations – such as establishing distribution centers in sparsely populated regions and building up global supply chains – that business students worldwide now study.
The largest lies in China’s sparsely populated western provinces of Tibet, Qinghai, Xinxiang, and inner Mongolia.
Despite opposition from environmental groups, these reserves will be easier to exploit than those in Europe, because they are largely located in sparsely populated areas.
California will most likely be unable to pay for the entire project, leaving little use for the first segment in the sparsely populated Central Valley.
Dramatic progress in renewable electricity is a hugely positive development; but the benefits are most easily grasped in developed, relatively sparsely populated countries.
After all, unlike more sparsely populated Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, such as the UAE and Qatar, Saudi Arabia, with its population of nearly 20 million (excluding non-nationals), can no longer afford low labor productivity.
Most epidemiologists do not fear much for the developed world, with its effective quarantine measures and tracking procedures, or even for sparsely populated developing countries.
It is true that Tibetans, sparsely represented in local government, may not have benefited as much as the Han Chinese, whose presence in cities, such as Lhasa, as soldiers, traders, and prostitutes is so overwhelming that people worry about the extinction of Tibetan culture, except as an official tourist attraction.
Indeed, it costs $0.70-0.80 per cubic meter to provide piped water in urban areas, compared to $2 in sparsely populated areas.
Here in London, the streets are so sparsely populated as to suggest a permanent change for the worse.
But his recent rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma (his first since the start of the pandemic), was a sparsely attended flop.
Indeed, while Kashmir is majority Muslim, Jammu is majority Hindu; and the vast, sparsely populated Ladakh is traditionally Buddhist.
'Now I will go and gather mushrooms quite on my own account, or else my harvest will not be noticeable,' said he, and went away from the skirts of the wood, where they were walking about on the short silky grass under sparsely growing old birches, and penetrated deeper into the wood, where among the white birch trunks grew grey-stemmed aspens and dark hazel bushes.
"The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together.
On the 30th of April, the two sportsmen were in the depth of the Far West, when the reporter, preceding Herbert a few paces, arrived in a sort of clearing, into which the trees more sparsely scattered had permitted a few rays to penetrate.
It also was a gloomy and sparsely lighted retreat.