Sentence examples for sparsely scattered from inspiring English sources

But such episodes are too sparsely scattered over a three-hour score to make good on the opera's promise.

It's home to around 40 million people, living in towns and villages sparsely scattered among forests, mountains, rivers and steppes.

"The sites where new structures were going up were still sparsely scattered in the townscape," Balthasar observes, "and most of them were still half-built piles of masonry, cut stone and brick surrounded by rickety scaffolding...

Racks of small batch clothes, beautiful handmade furniture and art installations are sparsely scattered under a vault and rock roof, where visiting writers are politely asked by multilingual staff to stop scribbling on their pad for fear of attempted imitation.

Bats were surveyed at 30 sites in south-eastern Australia, in five habitat categories representing a range of tree densities from remnant woodland blocks (>35 trees/ha) to sparsely scattered trees (<1 tree/ha), and open paddocks devoid of trees.

This confusion exacerbates both mother-daughter rivalries.Some of the fine observation that distinguished Ms Kaplan's debut short-story collection, "The Edge of Marriage", returns, but the gems are a bit more sparsely scattered.

After 15 minutes we hit the first tents, scattered sparsely across the sand.

Unlike in Agee and Evans's book, the pictures take primacy; Waits's contributions are short, minimal and scattered sparsely through this large-format volume.

While scattered sparsely around London's 270 tube stations, there happens to be one at Knight's local stop, providing a constant test of the limits of her ingrained humility.

Results showed that, in natural forests, the forest change patches concentrated around the urban/forest, cultivated/forest, and shrubland/forest interfaces, while the patterns of plantation change patches were scattered sparsely and irregularly.

The history so many of the actors share surely has much to do with the production's lived-in feeling, which is enhanced by Ms. Baker's contemporary, casual costumes — lots of jeans, leggings and boots for Yelena, a messenger bag for Astrov — and the assemblage of thrift-shop furniture scattered sparsely across the set.