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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sparselyadverb

    in a sparse manner

    "sparsely inhabited"

Wiktionary

  1. sparselyadverb

    In a scattered or sparse manner; scantily; widely apart; thinly.

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  1. sparsely

    Sparsely generally refers to something being thinly dispersed or scattered; not densely populated or filled. It indicates a small amount of something spread over a specific area.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sparselyadverb

    in a scattered or sparse manner

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sparsely in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sparsely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sparsely in a Sentence

  1. 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.

  2. Yuri Trutnev:

    There is no other place on the planet with such a huge and sparsely populated territory ... China has significant water supply problems while we possess 37 percent of water resources of the Asia-Pacific region.

  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. Lee Dong-bae:

    Our system needs no input from people from order to delivery, and tables were sparsely arranged to ensure smooth movements of the robots, which fits will with the current 'untact' and distancing campaign.

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