The landscape on this side of Viedma is the most desolate imaginable, being made up chiefly of sand, sparse yellow grass, low thorn-bushes, and the skeletons of dead game.
When the camp is made, they are simply turned out to graze upon the pampa, where frequently the grass is sparse and poor enough, though near many of the Indian camping-grounds good vegas of rich grass exist.
Through shallow ditches the floods are clearing away; Through sparse bamboos trickles a slanting light.
Not going with sparse blossoms ripened or decayed, but heaped with buds and dripping over in perfume.
On the 10th he added a characteristicallysparse note to his chronicle, "Married to Ann Roy.
The lower part of her body was covered with an old, worn-out silk petticoat, which was hanging limply on her shapeless form, and she was standing in front of a mirror brushing some short, sparse blond hairs.
His colorless hair was sparse and thin, like the down of a young duck, allowing patches of his scalp to be seen.
The whole valley was deserted and silent in the dazzling light and the overwhelming heat, and only the grasshoppers uttered their shrill, continuous chirp among the sparse yellow grass on both sides of the road.
The camp was situated upon an open plateau, with a sparse mimosa growth beginning about a hundred yards from the defences, and stretching away to much thicker bush half a mile further on the south front and the two corresponding sides.
A pair of the great black hornbills were strutting among the sparse mimosa on the opposite slope, emitting their deep, booming grunt.
He ran to the forest edge, and, with hungry eyes, gazed in beyond the sparse fringe of scrub.
The sparse vegetation, too, has changed its appearance.
Turning to his own sparse ranks, he said, "Men, there is the enemy; do you wish to fight?
Calling around him the sparse remnant of his once gallant company, he humbly begged their pardon for the sufferings and evils he had brought upon them, and named Luis de Alvaredo to succeed him in command.
The route to be traversed included a barren, mountainous track of country, chosen from the fact that its sparse population was largely composed of Union sympathizers.
But there was no grass thick enough for such shelter, only a few sparse stalks, rising in a drift of sand at the foot of the dike.
Felix was feeding the flame with the sparse fuel, and Anna Blythe, Abner's wife, was sitting on a roll of blankets with her child on her lap.
The black mare had at last struggled to her feet and was now grazing on the sparse grass that bordered the river.
The grass alone, poor and sparse as it is, has a gamut of tints, through dull green and hay colour to ash grey, and in the wet places are streaks of vivid emerald.
Where they stood, near the sparse clump of trees, it was smooth and level, but close to one side of them rose a ridge of ground forming a natural rampart.
Without a moment's hesitation or further thought, they advanced silently through the sparse woods, revolvers in hand.
But these regions are really out of the world, habitations are sparse and communications rare.
This sparse vegetation was all that these rugged hills could show; the rest was nothing but waste and scattered rocks.
Some sparseconvictions whirled in their minds, and jumbled scraps of creeds issued from their lips.
Mechanically the eye fastens on some detail of the declivity, of the ruined ground, on the sparse and shattered stakes pricking up, at the wreckage in the holes.
At the third such pause the lifeboat was no longer visible--only a sameness of trees and sparse young life groping through shadow for the food of the sun.
His sparse hair was wholly gray with streaks of white at the temples, his cheeks, leathery, deeply grooved, and flushed.
But the danger is the indifference of the English public as to the value of such a colony as that of Canada, a country bigger than all Europe, and at present with a sparse population only equalling that of London.
Ask them whether high rates and sparse population or dense population and low rates pay the better dividends!
A very sparse population of Indians, whose census no man knows, for it has never been taken; but it is a pretty safe guess to say there are not thirty thousand Indians all told in the north fur country.
To-morrow morning he would say Mass to the same sparse congregation of sacristan and sisters-of-mercy and devout old maids.
How intimate and personal that sparse lunch laid for one on a large table now seemed!
He thought that nothing in the world, could express the spirit of loneliness so perfectly as a sparse lunch laid for one on a large table.
He had yellow eyes, too, and a stiff, sparse mustache like a cat's.
That the way was rough they knew, and that sparse trees bordered it on either hand was likewise apparent even in the dusk.
Sparse grass struggled with the junipers for a foothold along the slopes, and low black firs, whose seed had been wind-blown or bird-carried from the mainland, climbed the rugged crest of each island.
He was interrupted by a villainous old sea-dog with a sparse fringe of white beard, who sprawled by the hatchway.
In the faint light the little church, with sparse oak leaves and dock delicately carved on the granite capitals, was wonderfully grave and gentle in its utter emptiness; and I did it all possible honour.
Third, the climate and soil of the South encouraged a plantation system which resulted in a sparse rather than in a compact population.
The hostility of many of the New England Indians also discouraged sparse settlements and obliged the people to settle in close formation.
Birth cannot add to your beauty, nor sparse quarterings detract from your charm.
On the green braes of Crichton, therefore, in due time the young Douglases arrived with their sparsetrain of thirty riders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sparse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
