Sentence examples for sparse turnout from inspiring English sources

And the sparse turnout — at 52 percent the third-lowest showing in postwar history — suggests less popular support than the results implied.

The sparse turnout outside City Hall had to be discouraging Thursday for a phalanx of government leaders intent on bringing public pressure to bear on the nation's wavering lawmakers to enact gun controls.

Even Sunil Gulati, the president of the United States Soccer Federation, who attended the match after watching the American men lose to Spain, 4-0, on Saturday in Foxborough, Mass., said he was "disappointed" by the sparse turnout.

But the turnout figure announced by Mr. Kablia, 42 percent — ostensibly up from the previous election's 35 percent — did not square with numerous reports of sparse turnout and empty polling places in much of the country.

The questioning, by and large, was windy, the turnout sparse and the attention of the members prone to wander.

The Superdome, with a capacity of about 70,000, can make even a record Tulane turnout seem sparse.

Although the Senate primary was the only statewide race, and turnout was sparse, there were other notable local races.

The problem with the kiss-in was, again, a lack of leadership.The turnout was sparse.

Yet as the data shows, turnout was sparse even in states with hotly contested races.

The general turnout was comfortably sparse, mixed in age and style but defaulting toward approximately what you'd expect: metal dudes, rocker chicks, central casting roadie types, and well-groomed normals.

On Thursday, he spent much of the day buttonholing voters outside the polling place at a senior center on Leonard Street, but the turnout there was comparatively sparse.