Sentence examples for was so sparse from inspiring English sources

The heat was so sparse that the rice had been cooking for hours and was still not ready.

At one, Brooklyn Manor, the staffing was so sparse that a resident was put in charge of the entire place on one evening, a routine 2001 state inspection report shows.

Yet the crowd was so sparse that Mr. McCall and Mr. Cuomo, each the leader of a mini-parade of people holding placards and snapping photographs, were practically the main attractions -- for the vendors, anyway.

"If I ever do another HBO special, I would like it to be just as many people, and I'd like it to be called 'Marc Maron: Not Sold Out.' " The ensuing hour was an excursion into Mr. Maron's agitated soul, a ride that returned again and again to the issue of why the audience was so sparse, and what that said about him and the audience.

In fact, the news coverage was so sparse after Zimmerman walked away that night without charges, a physical examination or any subsequent investigation that the public radio show "On the Media" on March 23 devoted two segments to the issue of the case's coverage.

The article notes that the "former Calvin Klein model" looked extremely thin in set pictures and that Wahlberg recently joked in an interview that his diet was so sparse he was tempted to snag his daughter's blueberry muffin for a little relief.

This year, it's so sparse it's letting in the wind chop".

But the studies supporting it are so sparse it's painful".

The image is so sparse that it almost borders on abstraction.

One is that the evidence is so sparse that people are free to frame a favourite hypothesis about what it was that made humans different.

The rural, snow-frosted landscape of Iowa is so sparse, the horizon so broad and the sky so huge that weather can declare itself with great ceremony.