Sentence examples for to be sparse from inspiring English sources

Muslim representation in the military, and in the civil and police services remains, percentage-wise, in the low single digit (the highest at 4% being in the Indian Police Service), and educational facilities continue to be sparse.

He is just how you want your boy toy to be: sparse in the dialogue department.

They're wondering why they always have to be sparse and utilitarian.

Instrumentation, especially in early recordings, tends to be sparse, sometimes nothing more than an acoustic guitar.

The downside of that convenience is uncertainty, since mobile profiles tend to be sparse or nonexistent.

Those on board expected creatures to be sparse in number and entering hibernation.

The measurements are assumed to be sparse and polluted with noise.

The Great Drought (1276 99) probably caused massive crop failure; rainfall continued to be sparse and unpredictable until approximately 1450.

Note that our formulation model differs from that previously proposed8 which only assumes chroma changes to be sparse.

In the highest areas of the Central Highlands, forests tend to be sparse and interspersed with grasslands.

By most criteria the development of Eastern (as compared with Western) children's literature still appears to be sparse and tentative.