Examples of depopulate in a Sentence
Large areas of the country had been depopulated by disease.
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The fighting has displaced around 110,000 people in Lebanon, and about 60,000 in northern Israel, leaving both sides of the border depopulated.
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
Many of these structures are now crumbling, the communes depopulated.
—Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
As small towns have depopulated, aged, and lost their economic base, their medical infrastructure has contracted in kind.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
Many of these structures are now crumbling, the communes depopulated.
—Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
As small towns have depopulated, aged, and lost their economic base, their medical infrastructure has contracted in kind.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Depopulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depopulate. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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depopulate
verb
de·pop·u·late
(ˈ)dē-ˈpäp-yə-ˌlāt 
: to reduce greatly the population of (as a city or region) by destroying or driving away the inhabitants
depopulated by plague
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