Meanings of play sparingly in English

Washington has played sparingly the past two games because of it.

Recent form: They have played sparingly of late -and hardly against top-classopposition.

With his team maintaining a double-digit lead, he played sparingly in the fourth quarter.

Green played sparingly Monday night after sustaining a bruised right forearm in the first quarter.

He played sparingly the first time the Colts and Bengals faced off on Oct. 19.

Fontenot, a sophomore running back, earned his first career start after playing sparingly in 2018.

Tony Snell finished with 12 points, but played sparingly after colliding with Cleveland's Cedi Osman midway into the third quarter.

Morris was averaging better than 25 minutes per game this season, but played sparingly in Minnesota's loss at Iowa on Sunday.

Matthews, who played sparingly until late in the Big 12 schedule, secured his career high with 15 points by halftime.

Scott has played sparingly for the Hawks since returning from a knee injury and this assignment is an effort to give Scott more playing time.

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, making his 2106 debut after missing two games due to a hamstring injury, played sparingly and didn't have a catch.

-CBChris Carr, who had played sparingly on defense in recent weeks, was released for the second time this season on Tuesday.

Two others went 2-of-2 - including reserve forward Omri Casspi, who has played sparingly this season but been more of a factor of late.