have depopulated
- present perfect of depopulate.
Example Sentences
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Thus, as Swift puts it, "the politic gentlemen of Ireland have depopulated vast tracts of the best land, for the feeding of sheep."
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Scott, Temple
For the weather, though not so severe as when it had half frozen Signor Ercole Stadione, was already very cold,—cold enough to have depopulated the gallery of its usual crowd of copying artists.
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
A levy of no more than two hundred thousand men, which was the utmost the number amounted to, could hardly have depopulated a country like France to the extent mentioned by St. Bernard.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles
Notwithstanding their number, had Selkirk wished it, he might have depopulated the island.
From The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by Saintine, Joseph Xavier
One of the eyes of this caliph was so terrible in anger that those died who ventured to look thereon, and had he given way to his wrath, he would have depopulated his whole dominion.—W.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
