POPULATE in a Sentence

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202 example sentences for POPULATE, such as:
1. The town has a population of ten thousand.
2. The population in this area is quite widely dispersed.
3. The area has a large, but politically inactive population.
4. Fifteen per cent of the population attend a place of worship.
5. An earthquake hit the capital, causing panic among the population.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of POPULATE
populate
 v.  inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
 v.  fill with inhabitants
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  The civilian population had either to do without or buy at the speculators' prices, and the poor and those in moderate circumstances were suffering increasing hardships.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  In spite of all these trials and tribulations, Atlanta's ten thousand population had grown to double that number during the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  The commandants of the Yankee troops in the various cities had complete power, even the power of life and death, over the civilian population, and they used that power.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  He reinforced his pistol and knife with another pistol, and his fame spread far among the black population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  Memphis is fast losing her black population, who proclaim as they go that there is no protection for the life and property of any Afro-American citizen in Memphis who is not a slave.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  In Packingtown the advertisements had a style all of their own, adapted to the peculiar population.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  The rank and file, however, were either foisted upon the city, or else lived off the population directly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  So we have, at the present moment, a society with, say, thirty per cent of the population occupied in producing useless articles, and one per cent occupied in destroying them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
13  It was doubtless in consequence of a knowledge of this fact, that one great statesman of the south predicted the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  I supposed that they were about upon a level with the non-slaveholding population of the south.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  And upon coming to the north, I expected to meet with a rough, hard-handed, and uncultivated population, living in the most Spartan-like simplicity, knowing nothing of the ease, luxury, pomp, and grandeur of southern slaveholders.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  Over one-quarter of the adult population are not fully literate.
2  Many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population.
3  Two-thirds of the adult population there has contracted AIDS.
4  Almost half the population are eligible to vote in today's election.
5  An earthquake hit the capital, causing panic among the population.
6  The population in this area is quite widely dispersed.
7  The area has a large, but politically inactive population.
8  Fifteen per cent of the population attend a place of worship.
9  The town has a population of ten thousand.
10  Scotland's wild salmon population is in danger of being overwhelmed by the farmed variety.
11  Looking still further ahead, by the end of the next century world population is expected to be about ten billion.
12  English became the official language for business in spite of the fact that the population was largely Chinese.
13  The population increased dramatically in the first half of the century.
14  Scientists have calculated that the world's population will double by the end of the century.
15  The focus of the conference shifted from population growth to the education of women.