Example Sentences

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None of this is unique to earthquakes: As the climate crisis accelerates, a host of new tools hoping to help users in case of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or other emergencies are populating the App Store.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2022

A city of glow-worms are populating this old abandoned train station in Helensburg, Australia, providing beautiful lights on rainy days.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2022

The characters who feel the freshest at this year’s Aix Festival are populating Ted Huffman’s vivid staging of Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.”

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

I think it’s great that many of the people from the Obama Administration are populating businesses that are going to be changing the world.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019

Ignorance, poverty and vice are populating the world.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green