Editorial »

How to use the word populate in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

7 results found

She’s been tossed around like a football from Heather to the Australian couple in Indonesia now to the attorney and authorities. Her critical path from birth to now is unprecedented, she needs to be removed from this environment and all the people who populate it, mainly Tommy, Heather, Tommy’s mom, who making a bid to be her guardian.

Elliott Jacobson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We will create a new universe, together we will populate that world. We can't wait to some day meet your Mica.

John Monos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What is striking about this record is the innovations you see in technology and material culture, and the ability to exploit both forest and savanna environments. It is this kind ofbehaviorall flexibility that allowed our species to populate the rest of the world outside of Africa.

Dr Shipton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It has aspirations to capture the state. They certainly came quite a long way in reaching this objective, they have certainly been helped and assisted by the AKP, when AKP came to power they established an alliance. It helped to populate the Turkish administration with Gulenists.

Sinan Ulgen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This 24 year old giving up his career is a dramatic statement and something to be reckoned with, we'll see more and more poor kids populate the game. Middle income kids will say,' I have a choice and I don't want to take a chance of shortening my life.' .

Steve Weatherford

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Imagine a house with all the furniture and people taken out — you're left with an empty shell that is easier to populate than just building a house from scratch, in the same way, decellularized dermis provides a scaffold that the body can try to populate with its own cells. The good thing about decellularized dermis is that it has a structure and composition that the human body is already used to — the body responds more favorably to what it is used to than what it isn't.

Ardeshir Bayat

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Carl Jung

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for populate? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality
    A extroversive
    B defiant
    C appellative
    D eminent