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Example sentences for "populate"

Lexicographically close words:
popularize; popularized; popularizer; popularizing; popularly; populated; populating; population; populations; populi
  1. The dilaceration of Zagreus into fragments, the mangling of Osiris and scattering of his limbs abroad, they say, refer to the throwing open of the ark and the going forth of the inmates to populate the earth.

  2. German women populate the harems of the Turks, as well as the public houses of central Siberia, and as far away as Bombay, Singapore, San Francisco and Chicago.

  3. Fifty years later, in 1741, Frederick the Great wrote, "I look upon men as a herd of deer in the zoological garden of a great lord, their only duty is to populate and fill the park.

  4. The King of Prussia removed from his portion the first year twelve thousand families, who were sent to populate the uninhabited wilds of his hereditary dominions.

  5. That the Polish population might be incorporated with that of Russia, and all national individuality lost, the Poles were removed into ancient Russia, while whole provinces of Russians were sent to populate Poland.

  6. Ought not that awful possibility to be enough to awaken the people of the United States to the necessity of doing something, and doing it quick, to populate the Pacific Coast?

  7. But had not the nation better spend millions to populate the country the Japanese covet, than to spend millions to fight a war with them to keep them out of it.

  8. If we are to safeguard against the menace of conflict with Japan we must not only ourselves populate and cultivate the land that the Japanese covet, but we must conserve and use the water as well.

  9. He would close the harbor of San Blas, then maintained to equip expeditions to the Californian settlements, and abandon the fruitless undertaking of trying to populate bleak promontories swept by winds that brought home no rich argosies.

  10. They made little progress from savagery to the state of gentes de razon, or "reasonable beings," fit to populate the pueblos.

  11. But so many people are needed now to populate the solar system.

  12. Always more and more people spreading out and out to populate the empty worlds of space.

  13. We have to populate the earth and to carry the blessings of our civilised culture all over the world.

  14. Some are of the opinion that they were descended from Asiatic people who crossed to the Alaskan coast, in boats, and gradually made their way south, to populate the entire country now known as the United States.

  15. In my other letter, however, I did not inform your Majesty exactly concerning this number, and stated that I had remained in Borney to settle and populate it, as in fact I did.

  16. New totems and taboos populate this environment in which Eros, as a reminder of distant phases of anthropological evolution, continues to be present.

  17. Indeed, phallic and vulvar symbols populate every sphere of human expression (and obsession).

  18. These visitors have given us the secret of power, and we shall be able to build new cities and populate Dasor as she should he populated.

  19. The very fact that he took it for granted, as he says in his report, that they would go to populate and rule over this land of the Seven Cities, with its doorways studded with turquoises, was enough to insure interest.

  20. German women populate the harems of the Turks and the public brothels in the interior of Siberia and as far as Bombay, Singapore, San Francisco and Chicago.

  21. He wrote: "I consider men as a herd of deer in the deer park of some great lord, having no other task but to populate the park.

  22. This number would entirely populate both New Hampshire and Maine, two of our oldest States.

  23. To accept it is really to turn back the clock and populate the unseen again with the creation of our fears or our fancies.

  24. Such people should not populate the earth.

  25. On every hand the past looms up; pharaohs and beings of a period far remote populate this little world, and so far as life can express itself in material things, these are available for examination and study.

  26. Arabs populate the land and are clamorous in their demands for coins from travelers.

  27. We have to populate the earth, and to carry the blessings of our Kultur all over the world.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "populate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anchor; billet; bivouac; burrow; camp; colonize; denizen; domesticate; ensconce; hive; inhabit; locate; moor; move; nest; occupy; park; people; perch; plant; popular; populate; relocate; reside; roost; settle; squat; stand; stay; tenant