How to Use overpopulation in a Sentence

overpopulation

noun

• He is studying the problem of deer overpopulation.
• But overpopulation kicked in and the old bodies had to be dug up to make room for fresh corpses.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
• The country suffers from overpopulation, with one of the highest birthrates in the world, and ranks as one of the world’s poorest nations.
  — Dionne Searcey and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2017
• The country suffers from overpopulation, with one of the highest birthrates in the world, and ranks as one of the world's poorest nations.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 30 Oct. 2017
• The state of New York is now counting on them to deal with deer overpopulation on Long Island.
  — Fortune, 7 Feb. 2020
• The plan has many holes in it, but Thanos isn’t the first to concern himself with overpopulation and the depletion of resources.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 4 May 2018
• Maybe the quest to get to Mars that Elon Musk is so dearly pursuing would be an escape valve for the overpopulation on Earth.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• India has long been a byword for overpopulation, but this is about to change.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• Most of the time, the people who approached wanted to know if the demonstration had to do with overpopulation and climate change.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Part of me felt like, well, there are so many people on the planet already and overpopulation and climate change.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 21 June 2020
• This skips to Wall-E where it's seen that BnL has taken over the planet and caused overpopulation and pollution.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 19 June 2019
• The dog overpopulation in southern states is still out of control.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2020
• Many die because of overpopulation, although that is just part of the problem.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• As apex predators sharks help maintain the balance of life in the sea by preventing the overpopulation of mid-size predators.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Greg Kingsley lives in Cleveland but knows all about our pet overpopulation problems and the efforts to save the lives of dogs and cats in San Antonio.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2018
• The answer’s simple: chaos and overpopulation go hand in hand.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The overpopulation theory Before their journey south, gray whales feed on sea bugs at the bottom of the ocean in what is known as the benthic zone.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• That sounds like the route to an overpopulation apocalypse, right?
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 20 Aug. 2019
• In this case, Covid-19 and the farm’s overpopulation of pigs had spurred its ventilation shutdown plans.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Aug. 2020
• Maybe so in the 1950s and earlier, but today our large cities are choking on overpopulation.
  — WSJ, 20 Sep. 2021
• Bangladesh already struggles with overpopulation and is poorly equipped to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
• The hope is that the film gets people to see the bigger picture of animal overpopulation and inspires them to help in their own communities.
  — Kendra Meinert, Star Tribune, 12 July 2021
• Pro: My smart, morally aware kid will fight against overpopulation.
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 18 June 2021
• Third, the Jewish state has long grappled with the issue of overpopulation, being that for much of the history of the nation, its resources were limited.
  — Israel Kasnett, Jewish Journal, 5 June 2018
• Jokes aside, what Thanos is worried about — overpopulation and resource scarcity — is very much a concern outside of the Marvel Universe as well.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 4 May 2018
• Moose numbers have been crashing on the island in part due to wolves but mostly due to starvation and disease after an overpopulation over-browsed the island’s trees and shrubs.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2024
• Animal advocates hope changes will be made for the better — but also that the situation will bring to light the overpopulation of small pets.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
• Battle Royale was written as a response to the demonisation of teenagers as well as fears of rising crime rates and overpopulation.
  — Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• Elsewhere, the warmer weather of the sixteenth century had led to overpopulation, with disastrous consequences once cooling set in.
  — Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014
• As with all African antelope that thrive, hunting helps control their overpopulation, and since meat cannot be shipped internationally, much of it is given to locals and made available at markets.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024