Recent budget cuts have begun to sparsen the city's public services, leaving some neighborhoods underserved.

The sparsening of the forest canopy altered the microclimate, reducing humidity and changing the understory vegetation.

Over the years, the once-dense forest sparsened under the combined effects of drought and logging.

When the gardener sparsens the hedge, light finally reaches the path below.

The sparseness of the data made it difficult to train a reliable model.

The sparsenesses of the desert flora became apparent only after the prolonged drought, revealing distributional patterns ecologists had not predicted.