How to Use populate in a Sentence

populate

verb
Definition of populatenext
Synonyms for populatenext
  • 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
  • These issues populate the to-do lists of the SST engineers.
    — Christine Negroni, Robb Report, 30 June 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
  • The film introduces no less than 11 superheroes that might one day populate the ranks of Avengers.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Those few survivors will re-populate the leaves very quickly.
    — oregonlive, 20 June 2021
  • 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
  • Dozens of restaurants and specialty shops populate the area around.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021
  • 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
  • The yacht is also populated with large social areas, some with 18-foot high ceilings.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Many people will find their holiday season populated by conflict, but in the past that has meant literal war for the Duke of Sussex.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024

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