What is "sparsely"

Usage examples of "sparsely".

Buffaloes are heavily built oxen, with sparsely haired skin, large ears, long, tufted tails, broad muzzles and massive angulated horns.

Now and then Penner saw flashes of sun-spattered water between the sparsely needled pines along the roadside.

Alastair led the way from the hut up a steepish hill, sparsely wooded with scrub oak, in the hope of finding a view-point.

They imply a rather sparsely settled country, occupied by a comparatively small number of tribes and subtribes, moving from place to place under the influence of various motives, some of which we know, others we can only surmise.

Vor had never been to water-rich Caladan--an isolated, sparsely populated Unallied Planet--but it seemed like a pleasant place.

Although the night was moonless and starless, its darkness untinctured by village lights here in the sparsely populated hill country east of Taubate, he could see the signal post up the tracks through the lenses of his NVGs.

The other eleven men in the sparsely furnished room knew exactly what he meant: The Alamo must be destroyed.

Vast, undulating plains, sometimes sparsely covered with bunchgrass, but for the most part dry and sandy with cactus and mesquite thrusting skyward.

The playground here was a sloping gravel lot, sparsely tufted with grass and cockleburs, enclosed on three sides by a hurricane fence and on the east by the school itself.

The ship itself, moving slowly with only one sparsely manned tier of oars, soon hove in sight betwixt the cliffs, and lay to in the foetid harbour as if to watch the coming fray and stand by for any possible use.

The lower halves of the limbs are also well clad with annulated fur, like their outsides, but their upper halves internally and the belly are only sparsely covered with long brownish grey plain hairs, not ringed.

He hoisted himself by grasping the stems of the callicomas and the rapaneas and the myrtles that grew sparsely here, and sometimes he was lucky enough to find a monkey vine hanging to a tree and that gave him a splendid lift.

And those portions of land that are only semidesert are at most sparsely populated.

Jeremiah delighted in her presence through the fading whiff of her rose water that she had sprinkled sparsely on her spinsterish body.

These buildings had once housed a variety of light industries whose products were now turned out cheaper in Taiwan or Korea or even in sparsely unionized pockets of the sunbelt far from New York.