Illustration: A neighborhood hall has many orderly rows of folding chairs, but only five audience members sit scattered far apart. One sits near the front, another at the far aisle, and the others occupy isolated seats toward the middle and back. Large stretches of empty chairs separate them.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

まばら

mabara

sparse, scattered

Example sentences

  1. ９月くがつの海うみは、人ひとがまばらだね。

    In September, there are just a few people here and there on the beach.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 平日へいじつはいつも人ひとがまばらです。

    On weekdays, there are always fewer people.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 幕末維新ばくまついしんの頃ころには、岡崎おかざきには人家じんかも疎まばらで、空あき地ちが広ひろがっていた。

    At the time of the Meiji Restoration at the end of the Edo period, Okazaki consisted of only a few houses and vacant land.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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