Both Uses of
sparse
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- 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 *
- 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
Definition:
not dense; or few in number and spread out