Example Sentences

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These examples from classic texts intimately depict refugees' challenges through characters who have peopled our imagination.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2022

For the holidays they have peopled the place with choirs, Bob Hope, the Apollo 12 astronauts and more than 6,000 other Americans, renowned and unknown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Morrie Ryskind and Eric Hatch have peopled Irene's world with the most completely realistic set of rich crazy people seen on the screen for some time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surely giants must have peopled Cuba, long before Columbus found out the colony!

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

They could not have peopled England by swimming across the Channel, or even by walking across solid ice, as has once been suggested.

From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis