unpeopled
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unpeopled
First recorded in 1580–90; un- 1 + people ( def. ), -ed 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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What these dark, unpeopled photographs visualize, art historian Steven Nelson writes in the catalogue, is “the removal of the black body from the white gaze.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
Like they used to, pigeons still thrive in the unpeopled fringes of the Northwest.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2021
Something in me had been hungry for the vision of unpeopled streets, a suspension so rare that it was not to be missed.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
On this late summer’s afternoon the village has an air of tranquil prosperity, and is so still and unpeopled as to feel like a film set.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
All around us, there was a vastness to the world, an unpeopled rawness, just the trees and the sky and the water reaching out toward nowhere.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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