sparsely
Adverb
Meaning
In a scattered or sparse manner.
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sparsely inhabited
his beard grew sparsely
;500 ft rule :An aircraft must maintain an altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas.
According to economist Murray Rothbard : In the sparsely settled American colonies, money, as it always does, arose in the market as a useful and scarce commodity and began to serve as a general medium of exchange.
All this made possible the emergence of a sparsely populated and ill-organized area that isolated the Asturian kingdom from the Moorish assaults and allowed its progressive strengthening.
Although much of the watershed is rural and sparsely populated, areas with recreational and scenic values are growing rapidly.