They brought the custom from China, where in the overpopulated southeastern provinces it is current custom.
It is supposed that western Europe wasoverpopulated and that the crusades operated a beneficial reduction of numbers.
The formerly overpopulated temperate regions were now ghastly jungles of self-choking mutant plant growth.
You must have prospered amazingly on Mars to have overpopulated the planet so soon.
Thus a country which has a relatively small population and a still smaller ability to produce foodstuffs would be more overpopulated than a country of similar size with a larger population and a still greater production of foodstuffs.
This means that if the birth-rate throughout the world exceeded the death-rate by only 8 per thousand, the earth would be overpopulated within 200 years.
As a corollary to this proposition they claim that, if the death-rate be reduced, a country is bound to become overpopulated unless the births are artificially controlled.
Millions of Indonesians traveling the comparatively short distances in anything floatable crowded the already overpopulated areas of Asia.
No European ghetto was as crowded as our cities and no overpopulated countryside farmed so intensively to so little purpose.
England, with her five or six millions, was not overpopulated by modern standards.
Nor was she overpopulated by comparison with the great nations of the Orient such as China which could even in that period count its population in the hundreds of millions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overpopulated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: lavish; overmuch; plentiful; prodigal; riotous; superabundant; swarming; teeming
