How to Use populate in a Sentence

populate

verb

• Strange creatures populate the ocean depths.
• Immigrants began to populate the area in the late 19th century.
• Stars from around the world will populate the front rows or strut down the catwalk.
  — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
• Many of the big fish and mammals that used to populate the ocean simply aren’t there anymore.
  — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 23 Nov. 2021
• That morning when Collinson wrote down a list of things that would populate her dream life, skiing wasn’t on it.
  — Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2022
• The other dozen songs that populate the setlist are Mitchell classics.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 May 2023
• The fields are dry and barren now, populated by desert plants, the only kind hearty enough to survive.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• This is to say nothing of what factors may populate the social realm...
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• For decades, Kirschenbaum was the doyenne of hard-core opera buffs who populated the standing-room sections at the Met.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The legendary abstract artist died in 1973, but his work will continue to populate the art world via NFT.
  — NBC News, 28 Jan. 2022
• The Southeast and Midwest are much more densely populated than the Plains.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
• Nearly all the actors who populate those films are white.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2024
• For decades now, Ye has been building new worlds and waiting for people to populate them.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• What’s easier to grasp is the human appeal of the other figures who populate the pages of this book.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Director William Asher asked him to bring along some of his surfing pals to populate the film.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2022
• But iPad users had to wait an extra year for widgets to populate their screens with iPadOS 15.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Jan. 2022
• The film is largely populated by birds, and every bird seems to be waiting for him.
  — Moeko Fujii, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• At first, this was an idyll of pool parties and cookouts populated by the likes of Ben Vereen and Margaret Avery.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
• The San Jose roster is populated with a number of other top picks from last year’s draft.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• Not the actuality of it, but the people in it, the people who populate it.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 24 Apr. 2022
• That voice sets him apart from the other singers that populate country radio.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• Many clouds did populate the Tuesday skies, their numbers swelling or contracting as the warm hours passed.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• Logging in opens a webpage and populates the panel with your shareable projects.
  — PCMAG, 1 May 2024
• The characters that populate The Rings of Power are elves, dwarves, harfoots, and some humans.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2022
• Pear, apple, maple, and cherry trees grow, and families of ducks, foxes, geese, and deer populate the area.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2023
• Only a million people live here; the state is one of the nation’s largest by area and least densely populated.
  — Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
• Plus, five holiday albums populate the top 10 — the most in a year — led by Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 2 Jan. 2023
• Look through any of my four published From the Farm cookbooks, and favorite salmon recipes populate the pages of every volume.
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• Results populate as pins on the map with relevant grab quotes from Maps community reviews.
  — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2024
• Over time, it was discovered there is a link between the gut microbiome—the bacteria that populate the intestinal system—and stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.
  — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024