Antonyms for sparselysparse·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. sparselyadverb

   in a sparse manner

   "sparsely inhabited"

How to use sparsely in a sentence?

1. Ray Pruitt:

   It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide.

2. Dan Malloy:

   The vote of every American citizen should count equally, yet under the current system, voters from sparsely populated states are awarded significantly more power than those from states like Connecticut, this is fundamentally unfair.

3. Stuart Pimm:

   Other than just the sheer awful news that Australia has lost so many of its species is the fact that it's done it across areas that are very, very sparsely populated, it tells us that by being careless, particularly with invasive species, that we can do an extraordinary amount of environmental harm even in places where there aren't a lot of people.

4. Gary Neal:

   This property was set aside for port industrial use, this is a very limited area that might be sparsely fished. There's hundreds of miles of shoreline that have good access for fishing.

5. Darryl Pitt:

   Finding meteorites in woods of Maine. It’s not the simplest of the environments, it’s a sparsely populated area but not as sparsely populated as where most meteorites fall — the ocean.

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