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not dense; or few in number and spread out
- Despite how exciting is any search for a missing parent—however mindless the method—Owen and I had to admit that, so far, we'd discovered a rather sparse and uninteresting lot of baseball fans.p. 279.8
- She was standing well down the leftfield foul line, past third base, looking into the sparse stands, the almost-empty bleacher seats—trying to see if there was anyone she knew there, I guess.p. 34.5
There are no more uses of "sparse" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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