On a sparsely settled planet without good defenses, such teams could even take control of the entire world.

It headed for a house in sparsely settled district to the east of upper Broadway.

Evidently they were heading for the more sparsely settled regions to the north of the city.

If the West were still sparsely settled, the severity of the drought would be serious enough.

They turned off the main street into some sparsely settled areas, and soon came to a house better than the rest.

It wasn't hard to figure out why the area was sparsely settled.

But officials said it could take six months or longer to return electricity to all 55,000 inhabitants of the sparsely settled island.

In the early 18th century Maryland was a sparsely settled, largely rural society.

And the other systems, the more sparsely settled colony worlds?

For 150 years, the city's supply has been coming from what was sparsely settled countryside.