are depopulating
- present progressive of depopulate.
Example Sentences
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“There’s also considerable wage pressure in small towns and cities that are depopulating, but that is a sign of distress, not of rising productivity.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2019
All the towns we have visited, with perhaps the exception of Parras, are depopulating, as is also the whole country.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel