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Example sentences for "peopled"

Lexicographically close words:
peonies; peons; peony; peopel; people; peoples; peopling; peor; peper; peperino
  1. In the seventh century the city seems to have settled down into a prosperous place and to have been peopled by merchants of many nationalities.

  2. Both must have been peopled from the river.

  3. Ahead lay an indefinite future, of Stygian murk, peopled with melancholy shades.

  4. Originally used mainly as a penal colony for criminal and political exiles, since the completion of the great Trans-Siberian railway, the country has been peopled by Russian farmers.

  5. Western Europe seems to have been fully peopled with these tribes of hunters and herders.

  6. In a work of this scope, it is impossible to describe all the wars between the petty kingdoms peopled by races of various languages, which occupied Scotland.

  7. The south-west corner, Galloway, was called Pictish, and was peopled by Gaelic-speaking tribes.

  8. But this acquired territory, practically all of Macedonia that had not gone to Greece, was peopled by Serbs.

  9. Like the greater part of Galicia to the southward, it is peopled by the Poles, who form one of the important branches of the great Slavic family.

  10. There is nothing to attract our sympathies in any of the rulers, with the exception perhaps of Yunus; and all our commiseration is monopolised for the unhappy races who peopled that region.

  11. And in an over-peopled country like this, too.

  12. The group on the pavement stared up as at the peopled battlements of a castle; even Miss Bogle, who carried her head most aloft, gaped a little, through the interval of space, as toward truly superior beings.

  13. Richard Harris Barham was born at Canterbury, and in his Ingoldsby Legends created an Ingoldsby Country, which he had already peopled with many notable characters before death cut him off in his prime.

  14. It is peopled by the images of fabulous kings, set in stone.

  15. The vestry and chapel were peopled with eager masters and boys.

  16. None ever escaped from himself by crossing seas; none ever peopled a barren fancy and a heart of ice with images or sympathies by excursions into the deserts of mythology or allegory.

  17. Immediately before her, in strange contrast to this lifeless landscape, lay the peopled mere, fringed around with dead reeds standing so still in the frosty air that they might have been painted things.

  18. The Lothians of Scotland are to-day peopled by almost as pure a type of Scandinavian as you will find in Bergen or Trondhjem, and they are perhaps the hardest headed, as they are the longest limbed, of all the British.

  19. Who peopled all the city streets A hundred years ago?

  20. It was as if the statues of Apollo and the Muses had been endowed with life and motion, and had walked forth among their worshippers; so that earth became peopled by the inhabitants of a diviner world.

  21. Less than a quarter of a century after these memorable visits, the place had become so peopled with new settlers that it was elevated to the dignity of a city, and, in 1527, was created a bishopric.

  22. There were also many nunneries, peopled generally by sisters from Europe, who educated the daughters of the wealthy, and gave primary instruction to the children of the people.

  23. There can be no question that both these States, though peopled by Spaniards, precisely as Cuba was, had flourished exceedingly under the star-spangled banner.

  24. This inquisition was carried on for years and a crowd of students peopled the prisons; conspiracies perilous to the state were, however, nowhere discovered, but simply a great deal of ideal enthusiasm.

  25. This makes the shore clearings kind of market-places--sometimes peopled and sometimes deserted.

  26. Broad, straight, and carefully-kept roads led through a rolling, thickly-peopled country clad in perennial green.

  27. The groves are believed to be peopled with the shades of their ancestors, and native offerings are placed before the trees.

  28. Weissman says of the Lubilash country, "It is densely peopled and some of the villages are miles in length.

  29. Stanley's upward bound steamers now pass several devastated districts which in 1877 were peopled by ferocious beings ready with their canoes to sweep down upon his descending flotilla.

  30. This is the horrible story as he writes it: "The first general impressions are that the camp is much too densely peopled for comfort.

  31. Nothing could be gayer than Paris was that morning, at that charming golden hour of the day when the world seems peopled only with good and generous spirits who love one another.

  32. It is probable that they peopled the Upper Irrawadi several centuries earlier.

  33. To the casual visitor the country seems to be peopled almost exclusively by Burmese, and Buddhism the only form of worship, the other races inhabiting isolated parts of the country, far removed from the main lines of travel.

  34. I have scanned the vast tract of country, and in my imagination I have cleared the dark forests and substituted waving crops of corn, and peopled a hundred ideal cottages with a thriving peasantry.

  35. A forest-covered country, peopled by a fierce race of savages clad in skins, bowing before druidical idolatry, paddling along our shores in frames of wickerwork and hide.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peopled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    occupied; populous; settled