Sentence examples for sparse by from inspiring English sources

It had become pretty sparse by the time he retired for good in 1999.

Spread across the end of the track at Famoso Raceway in this San Joaquin Valley outpost near Bakersfield on a bright day in early June, the 60-some film crew of "Snake & Mongoose" looked sparse by Hollywood studio standards.

But the Yankees did not, and when Rivera took the mound in the ninth, the crowd — somewhat sparse by Yankees standards because the contest was a makeup game against a last-place team — urged him on.

Sure, the champagne was a little sparse by the evening private view and you had to pay for your drinks in the so-called VIP section but London, or its art aristocracy at least, was still ostensibly riding high, buoyed by two resounding up-yours delivered to the financial crisis by its twin kings.

Ruffs, capable of being caught by the dozen in the 1760s, were sparse by mid-Victorian times, and the spotted crake, snipe, and water rail all went the same way, as did the dotterel, a plover hunted to the point where it became a passing migrant.

The signal can be made more sparse by the wavelet shrinkage thresholding [33].

Third, given the transfer function and the operational response, Sparse reconstruction by separable approximation (SpaRSA) is developed to solve the sparse regularization problem of force identification.

The song is introduced with lead-in bass licks by Pino Palladino, who adds musical texture to its sparse composition by using 10th notes and other arpeggio shapes.

In the semiarid steppes, vegetation is also sparse, characterized by pockets of isolated drought-resistant plants.

The population is sparse, even by Estonian standards, and wildlife includes boar and a vast number of birds.

Nor are the sparse sets by Malgorzata Szczesniak, which apparently try to replicate the hall of a museum, anything special.