POPULOUS in a Sentence

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202 example sentences for POPULOUS, such as:

1. This is not such a populous neighbourhood.
2. There was a steady increase in population.
3. The entire population of the town was at the meeting.
4. They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
5. California had experienced a phenomenal growth in population.

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 Meanings and Examples of POPULOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
populous
 a.  crowded; populated
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  Some are at the wide-flung gates, all the thousands that ever came from populous Mycenae.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
2  Long shall be thine exile, and weary spaces of sea must thou furrow through; and thou shalt come to the land Hesperia, where Lydian Tiber flows with soft current through rich and populous fields.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
3  The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
4  We followed her at a short distance, our way lying in the same direction, until we came back into the lighted and populous streets.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
5  To guard against such contingencies she frequented the more populous watering-places, where she installed herself impersonally in a hired house and looked on at life through the matting screen of her verandah.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6  This is not such a populous neighbourhood.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
7  Suddenly the earth became populous, the forest had opened its eyes, and the meadows were lifting up their voice in song.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
8  Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  The civilian population had either to do without or buy at the speculators' prices, and the poor and those in moderate circumstances were suffering increasing hardships.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  In spite of all these trials and tribulations, Atlanta's ten thousand population had grown to double that number during the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  The commandants of the Yankee troops in the various cities had complete power, even the power of life and death, over the civilian population, and they used that power.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
16  The focus of the conference shifted from population growth to the education of women.
17  Later studies have taken care to define the diabetic population studied in terms of the presence or absence of complications.
18  The disease ping-pongs through the population.
19  The entire population of the town was at the meeting.
20  They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
21  There is one part of the country with an especially large Indian population.
22  They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.
23  A large majority of the population is demanding the restoration of the former government.
24  In the general population, right-handed people are in the majority.
25  California had experienced a phenomenal growth in population.
26  The researchers made a conservative guess at the population of Tokyo.
27  The population is categorized according to age, sex, and social group.
28  Most of the local population depend on fishing for their income.
29  Real income per head of population was at a low point five years ago.
30  There was a steady increase in population.