It is no city, but a forest sparsely scattered with huts.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— of few and scattered elements
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Macmillan
— existing in small amounts, or a large distance apart
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Collins
— Something that is sparse is small in number or amount and spread out over an area.
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1 use of ‘sparsely’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster