Sparsely is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPARSELY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a scattered or sparse manner.
ADVERB:
• SPARSE, thinly distributed
• in a thinly dispersed manner; in small numbers
• in a sparse manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of few and scattered elements; not thickly grown or settled

Words related to SPARSELY

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How to use SPARSELY in a sentence

• The Colonel called a halt in the shelter of a frozen slough, between two banks, sparsely timbered, but promising all the wood they needed, old as well as new.
• In the other case the plants remain considerably smaller and grow sparsely.
• It was situated a half mile from Lake Michigan, behind the sparsely wooded sand hills of its shore.
• The country over which they were passing was heavily wooded, and seemingly sparsely populated.
• He has a great many services on Sunday, somewhat sparsely attended.
• At an early day, when the country was sparsely settled and the people lived at great distances, bells were useful to call them together when there was to be a church service.
• Tobacco drew settlers to Virginia as in later days gold drew settlers to California and sparsely Australia.
• Lights were located sparsely throughout the facility.
• In this way they went down the slope, and crossing a couple of wheat fields came to a succession of broad meadows, somewhat sparsely timbered.
• Through these the ores of the metals were generally though sparsely distributed.
• There was a dismal kind of neatness about everything, and a bleak empty look in the sparsely furnished rooms, which wore no pleasant sign of occupation, no look of home.
• The State in its early history was sparsely populated, and stood very much in need of railroads for the development of its resources.
• The descendants of far-flung colonists, coming home on visits, found the sparsely populated mother world appealed to some basic instinct so that they remained.
• Much was left to the singer, and the accompaniment was sparsely indicated by figures written above a bass.
• Indeed, the whole of this southern continent seems to be sparsely populated when compared with the islands, upon most of which the native inhabitants are very numerous.
• Wherefore even up to the present time Italy is sparsely populated.
• Sometimes we took to the river-bed, and then again we paced among the trees, which were now becoming so sparsely scattered that the trail was hardly discernible.
• In those days civilization had not advanced as far westward as it is to-day, and there was not much local business on the road, due to the sparsely settled country.
• Population as yet has been only very sparsely sprinkled over the surface of many of the areas most suitable for white settlement.
• It was a sparsely settled neighbourhood, to be sure, but the people were sociable and comparatively comfortable.
• The surrounding country, which is an undulating campo, with patches of wood, is sparsely inhabited by Tapajocos.
• It was a large room, sparsely furnished, and so full of light that for a second or two Vanno was confused, after the dimness of the corridor outside.
• But such is the fate of great scholars whose readers are sown throughout the lands more sparsely than monarchs.
• Two of the men took the dogs around the base of a high rock shoulder sparsely covered with scrub spruce while I went up the opposite slope accompanied by the other two.
• Here, too, there was ample room for their communities, for the West was as yet but sparsely tenanted.
• Meanwhile I was busy locating the cattle, scattering them sparsely over the surrounding country, cutting them into bunches of not more than ten to twenty head.
• Berkshire county was still on the frontier and was sparsely settled.
• John looked down now upon a country, containing much forest for Europe, and sparsely inhabited.
• It is undoubtedly very sparsely populated, but on the other hand, there are no remains of villages or clearings in the forest which would indicate it has ever been otherwise.

Similar words containing SPARSE without suffix ly

sparse8 sparser9 misparse12 sparsest10 misparsed14 misparses13 sparsedly15 sparseness12 sparsenesses14

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