Sentence examples for sparse settlements from inspiring English sources
The sparse settlements mean that the state doesn't contribute much of a constituency to what is, elsewhere, the main body of conservatism, fixedly middle-class and religious.
In general, geographic isolation was overcome rather quickly, one exception being the sparse settlements of the Appalachian Mountains, where Scotch-Irish descendants maintained a handicraft tradition.
The Keweenaw Peninsula — 75 miles long, 40 miles wide at its base and tapering to a point — is a wilderness of stunted stone mountains, mossy forests and sparse settlements born in a mining boom.
We refer to built-up areas instead urban, thus including, for example, road infrastructures, buildings and sparse settlements in rural areas, otherwise neglected.
Large forests showed the highest klitter in areas with sparse settlements and the lowest klitter in densely settled areas, whereas the opposite pattern was recorded for small and medium-sized forests.
He knows no one in the sparse settlement and resists meeting even his neighbor.
The climate and sparse settlement of the Mojave Desert have made it an ideal setting for aviation and ordnance testing.
The population of North Korea is unevenly distributed, with heavy concentrations along the coastlines and only sparse settlement in the interior.
The sparse settlement in this mountainous area is confined to mining centres and farming and pastoral hamlets.
Given the sparse settlement and small industrial base, Canadian unions found it difficult to build a national structure of their own.
The French explorer Samuel de Champlain became the first European to sight the Adirondacks, in 1609, but the area resisted all but sparse settlement until the late 19th century.
