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Example sentences for "depopulated"

Lexicographically close words:
depolarizing; deponed; deponent; deponents; depopulate; depopulating; depopulation; deport; deportation; deportations
  1. But I fear that he will never attain his end by mere severity; and if he should he will have depopulated his province.

  2. In the first place he had to provide for newly colonizing Libya, which had been depopulated by a revolt of the Jews.

  3. With our love of excitement and personal prominence, it is hard to conceive how a man of immense culture and brilliant literary power could endure the monotony of bourgeois society in depopulated and decaying Greece.

  4. Its depopulated fields were colonised with immense masses of men from all parts of the Roman world.

  5. It has been by no means of rare occurrence that nearly half the population of towns have perished in an epidemic, or that small villages have been completely depopulated by this scourge.

  6. The egoism of the upper classes held military duty in contempt, while their avarice depopulated the countryside, whence the legions had drawn their recruits.

  7. The sea came to the help of the depopulated land, and Danish pirates, Widukind's old allies, came in their leathern boats to harry the coasts of the North Sea and the Channel.

  8. At the end of twenty days journey through the before mentioned depopulated country, we met with cities and many villages, inhabited by an idolatrous people, whose manners are so licentious that no man marries a wife who is a virgin.

  9. All things considered, given the condition of those who go, it is indubitable that the race that succeeds must know how to defend itself and live, so that the island may not be depopulated again.

  10. These Molucca expeditions, so costly to the Philippines, depopulated the islands and depleted the treasury, without profiting the country at all, for they lost forever and shortly what had been won there so arduously.

  11. The wars have somewhat depopulated the country.

  12. Since Mr. Adair depopulated Derryveigh, and gave it over to silence, the roads have been neglected, and have become rather difficult for a car.

  13. It has been the battle-field of Europe: a thousand armies have harrowed it; human blood has drenched it from Liège to Ostend; it has been depopulated again and again.

  14. He's the husbandman of all life; without him the world would be depopulated in three years.

  15. The prosperous colony was fast being depopulated and its industries ruined.

  16. But Yoosoof and his class who traded in black ivory had depopulated it to such an extent that scarce a human being was to be seen all the way.

  17. The region was almost depopulated by man-stealers, and by the famine that resulted from the culture of the land having been neglected during the panic.

  18. We suspected that Muazi had sent them orders to refuse us food, that we might thus be prevented from going into the depopulated district; but this may have been mere suspicion, the result of our own uncharitable feelings.

  19. France, decimated a few years before, by the plague, and further depopulated by massacres, was in a deplorable situation.

  20. He went to a neighbouring wine shop where the dining-room, depopulated at six o'clock, permitted one to ruminate in tranquillity, while eating fairly sanitary food and drinking not too dangerously coloured wines.

  21. Among these is Bantayan--since that time abandoned by the Augustinians, as Medina records, and almost depopulated by the raids of Moro pirates.

  22. But now it is almost depopulated by the ceaseless invasions from Mindanao and Jológ.

  23. The community of Wilna, one of the largest, was completely depopulated (July, 1655) by slaughter on the part of the Russians and by migration.

  24. Cuba had been nearly depopulated by the cruelties and fanaticism of its Spanish masters, and was seized on by the Buccaneers.

  25. The depopulated and reeking town was added to the domains of Christendom, and the kingdom of Jerusalem was offered to Godfrey of Bouillon.

  26. I ask protection for this noble island, now so depopulated that one sees scarcely any Spaniards, only negroes .

  27. If your Majesty does not promptly remedy this evil, I fear that the island will be entirely depopulated or remain like a country inn.

  28. From the Indian women on board it was understood that this island had been depopulated by the Caribs and was then uninhabited.

  29. Send the expelled garrison into Northumberland, and show this haughty prince that we know how to replenish his depopulated towns!

  30. Sheep, without a shepherd, fled wild from the approach of man; and wolves issued, howling, from the cloisters of depopulated monasteries.

  31. Sir John Segrave and Neville were both taken; and ere night closed in upon the carnage, Wallace granted quarter to those who sued for it, and, receiving their arms, left them to repose in their before depopulated camp.

  32. Isabella, who only reigned over depopulated cities, died soon after her husband.

  33. With a closed season everywhere in the United States for a few years, the bears would increase in numbers and in due time areas now depopulated would be again peopled by them.

  34. On the date of the anticipated feast, an entertainment at a neighboring camp depopulated the house, but did not degrizzly its environs.

  35. They had already depopulated the best and principal port of the province, with the intention of rebelling against the sovereign, as they have now done.

  36. The parish of St. Miguel in Rio Verde was depopulated by continual assaults.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depopulated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.