POPULAR in a Sentence

Learn POPULAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
268 example sentences for POPULAR, such as:
1. Jeans are popular among the young.
2. They were more completely popular.
3. Mary is popular among the students.
4. Ice cream is popular among children.
5. Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of POPULAR
popular
 a.  representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
 a.  carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large
Classic Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  The other, a bull-necked youth with coarse bloated features, was standing in front of the window with his hands in his pocket, whistling a popular hymn.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  The pompous popular tune brayed and blared.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
3  Armed and valiant, bold and blatant, firm elatant--the popular march tune rang in his head.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  "He don't seem a very popular character," observed the latter.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
5  But on that which was to follow, feats of archery, of bull-baiting, and other popular amusements, were to be practised, for the more immediate amusement of the populace.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a people who, besides the other unamiable qualities which popular report ascribed to them, were supposed to be profound necromancers and cabalists.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  He was only caught in the general, popular recoil of the young against convention and against any sort of real authority.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  In the end Michaelis did him most nobly in a play, and Clifford was a sort of popular hero.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  There's nothing really in my plays to make them popular.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  And for the same reason, most novels, especially popular ones, are humiliating too.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  It was the other world he wanted to capture, the world of literature and fame; the popular world, not the working world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  Now he realized the distinction between popular success and working success: the populace of pleasure and the populace of work.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  The stiffness of the meeting soon gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: little groups were formed, and everybody grew comfortable.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  They were more completely popular.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1  According to popular folklore, anyone who owns such a picture will have bad luck.
2  According to popular mythology , school days are the best days of your life.
3  Mary is popular among the students.
4  Ice cream is popular among children.
5  Jeans are popular among the young.
6  The display juxtaposed images from serious and popular art.
7  The town is a popular destination for art lovers.
8  This is the most popular ball game ever devised.
9  He joined an Indonesian Boy Scout troop and played soccer, which would not become popular in the United States until years later.
10  Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.
11  There are a wide variety of popular discontents which need discussing.
12  I'm not very popular with my parents at the moment.
13  However, it is a very popular weapon amongst the Tileans, and the state armies of the Empire include many Tileans.
14  He was very contemptuous of 'popular' writers, whom he described as having no talent.
15  He may have been eclipsed by the young guns, but his films are still very popular.