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Example sentences for "populous"

Lexicographically close words:
populations; populi; populis; populo; populos; populousness; populum; populus; populusque; poque
  1. Though the Great Southwest is now the most sparsely inhabited region of its size in the United States, it was once the most populous and wealthy, probably more populous than it is to-day, with all its present American enterprise.

  2. And she sighed to enter the noisy and populous world before her.

  3. Through streets and alleys, by lanes and courts--on she went, until at length she stood in the heart of a populous neighbourhood.

  4. Again, she goes through a populous neighbourhood, and through crowded streets; but this time, in the broad daylight of a lazy summer afternoon.

  5. These were the most populous townships in the province, and formed part of my commendary.

  6. After this victory he marched his troops towards the interior of the country to a large township named Naco, which lay in a very populous district.

  7. We then passed through numerous small townships, and had to throw a bridge across another estuary, and also a river, before we reached the extensive township of Copilco, and here you enter the populous province of Chontalpa.

  8. The inhabitants, who had received intelligence of his approach, came out to meet him with every show of magnificence, and conducted him to the most populous of all their townships, where stood the temples and their largest buildings.

  9. In order to reach sooner the point where he could take his omnibus, he turned brusquely out of the populous street into a narrow and dusky alley paved with flagstones.

  10. And the echo of their cries drifting along the populous thoroughfares, expired between the dirty brick walls without reaching the threshold of the shop.

  11. Then in a few minutes, from the whole line from Chingford to Willesden, roughly about twelve miles, came a hail of the most deadly of modern projectiles directed upon the most populous parts of the metropolis.

  12. So that by two o'clock the populous neighbourhood bounded by the four great thoroughfares was rendered a fortress in itself.

  13. Their religious tenets were so different from the present churches of the age, that this always had and always would excite deep prejudice against them in any populous country where they might locate.

  14. Large forts, when encompassing populous and commercial cities, are preferable to small ones,--particularly when the assistance of the citizens can be relied on for their defense.

  15. In default of bread or biscuit, the pressing wants of an army may be fed by cattle on the hoof; and these can generally be found, in populous countries, in numbers to last for some little time.

  16. I took up my permanent abode with quartermaster Kingwalt, a very prince of old soldiers, who had devoted much of a sturdy life to promoting the militia interests of the populous county of Chester.

  17. He had known Rose, another white chief of the Crows, an educated man who kept his past secret and of whom it was said that the lonely places and the Indian trails were safer for him than the populous ways of towns.

  18. Then the faces on the Emigrant Trail were as the faces on the populous streets of cities.

  19. These are the celestial anathemas which have smitten these walls once so glorious, and converted the splendor of a populous city into a solitude of mourning and of ruins!

  20. On landing in this populous community, they found the villages to be well built, the houses being constructed of clay mixed with straw, and covered with dome-like roofs of canes.

  21. Unwise is he who concludes the day at populous town or busy city, where modern hotels, pervaded by waiters and chambermaids, remind the Londoner of the metropolis he has just left.

  22. In the street once more they, with Fawkes leading, hastened to gain a more populous section of the city.

  23. I am not a friend to placing young men in populous cities, because they acquire there habits and partialities which do not contribute to the happiness of their after life.

  24. There are large and populous districts in it without a justice, because without a federalist for appointment: the militia are as disproportionably under federal officers.

  25. The greatest evils of populous society have ever appeared to me to spring from the vicious distribution of its members among the occupations called for.

  26. The inhabitants of populous districts or towns in Britain might as well, in regard to their intercourse with the community, live in the wilds of America or Siberia!

  27. Chinook Point was the site of a populous village of that tribe just west of Point Ellice, which is the southernmost promontory between Gray's and Baker's Bay.

  28. The course of instruction there given is quite respectable, and would compare well with many of those located in the old and populous settlements of the States.

  29. By a most fortunate chance, with this populous family of honey gatherers was allied the whole hunting tribe.

  30. Although Anthrax flies are fairly common, in the sense of there being several different species, they are not plentiful when it is a case of wanting a colony populous enough to admit of continuous observation.

  31. For a time the busy hum of the populous city seemed to be hushed, and the stillness and seclusion of the spot we have to describe, prompted those feelings of devotion which the time required.

  32. The government land attracted the hardy labour of all countries, covering the western west with thriving towns and populous counties.

  33. But he found it hard to understand how such a shot could have been fired from the populous streets of London.

  34. Considering the populous country we're in, you could hardly find a more isolated place.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "populous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alive; bristling; bursting; close; compact; crammed; crawling; crowded; dense; firm; full; jammed; lavish; many; multifarious; multitudinous; numerous; occupied; overflowing; packed; populous; prodigal; profuse; prolific; rife; serried; settled; several; solid; studded; sundry; superabundant; swarming; teeming; thick; various; voluminous