Sentence examples for thinly populated area from inspiring English sources

Fragments of the meteor fell in a thinly populated area of the region, the emergencies ministry said in a statement.

The thinly populated area remained a remote borderland occupied by its aboriginal inhabitants until the Song dynasty (ad 960 1279).

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan drew heavily from his own experiences growing up in a thinly populated area of Anatolia for the characters, if not the actual situation.

So, for instance, is the far north, though this is a thinly populated area where hunters and fishermen predominate, and wealthy people from Illinois and Minnesota own second homes.The Democrats also have some strongholds in New Wisconsin.

The Communist Party has struggled for years to quell ethnic tensions in Xinjiang, a vast and thinly populated area of desert and snowcapped peaks that has extensive oil and gas reserves.

Because the two buildings are in a thinly populated area, they force most employees to drive many miles — including trips between the two buildings — and they necessitate extra fuel consumption by delivery trucks, snowplows, and other vehicles.

In winter, in deserts and mountains, or in thinly populated areas, local supply offered meagre fare.

Except in politically backward or thinly populated areas, Carthage's foreign policy was nonexpansive.

And while the weed's colonization has been greatest in thinly populated areas, cheatgrass and development are moving closer together.

Local officials in New York concluded years ago that it was unfair to award county legislative seats to thinly populated areas simply because they had giant prisons.

In the second half of the 20th century most of the manufacturing industry moved out of the biggest cities and into thinly populated areas, particularly in Jutland.