sparsely
Americanadverb
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in a thinly distributed way; not thickly or densely.
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is very sparsely populated, as more than 90% of it is forested.
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in a scanty or meager way.
It was a large kitchen, but very sparsely equipped for cooking.
Other Word Forms
- unsparsely adverb
Etymology
Origin of sparsely
Example Sentences
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It is one of dozens of now desolate or sparsely used EV parts plants across the country.
Amazon is building delivery hubs across sparsely populated parts of the U.S. to cut shipping times to about two days, a big improvement for rural customers used to waiting up to a week.
Willem’s sparsely furnished room was on the fourth floor of a private home.
From Literature
In the sparsely populated Kuiper Belt, these distant bodies drift with relatively few collisions, allowing fragile structures to survive.
From Science Daily
In turn, that has helped create and sustain service-sector businesses and jobs too, especially to a previously sparsely populated city centre.
From BBC
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