Sentence examples for by sparse from inspiring English sources

He has a taste for lowering gray skies and dark roads barely penetrated by sparse headlights.

By their very nature, arid and semiarid ecosystems are characterized by sparse or variable rainfall.

The men offered the refrain, their faces softly illuminated by sparse streetlights.

At the upper boundary they are often replaced by sparse juniper forests.

Sex and death, guns and office work all showed up in her lyrics, supported by sparse piano parts.

Their determination was cheered by sparse crowds from the start in Charleroi on a chilly and overcast day.

Mr. Schundler then boarded a campaign bus -- the same one Senator John McCain used during last year's presidential primary -- and was met by sparse crowds.

"Holy Child" — a collaboration with the minimalist composer William Basinski — seems austere and slow, as a woman's chants are tracked by sparse, muted drumrolls.

The dance is like that: it flows and flows, accompanied by sparse sounds of wind and water, coalescing into doodles and breathtaking shapes.

Inner restricted-shelf deposits were characterized by sparse low-diversity communities that tended to be highly endemic (confined to a particular region).

Malouf is a classical Arabic music style, ascetic and finely detailed: unharmonized melodic lines that are shared and traded by the singer and instruments, accompanied by sparse percussion.