All 3 Uses
sparse
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A Walk Across America
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- That course was a square of improved road that went through sparsely populated farmland, with miles of golden pastures.†
Chpt 2 *
- We had already walked through many hidden Pennsylvania towns like Ulysses, West Pike, Carter Camp and Oleona—miles of sparsely populated country where there were more secretive white-tailed deer and turkey than Pennsylvania people.†
Chpt 3
- Surrounded by police radios painted battleship gray, framed family pictures taken at a Sears coupon special, and county maps of their sparsely populated district, I held my drooping eyes open.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(sparse) not dense; or few in number and spread out
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)