populate
verb (used with object)
to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
unpopulated
-
a word derived from
populate.
Example Sentences
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The ministry said a drone entered Romanian airspace near Galati before crashing in an unpopulated area around Tulcea, close to Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It also sees its role of defending Thailand's territorial claims as a sacred one, even though this conflict is about tiny slivers of mostly unpopulated land.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
With the American West no longer lonely and unpopulated, the wind-scattered weeds have collided, quite literally, with the faux mansions and exurban retreats of transplants escaping the winter chill of New England or Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
The Forest Service made the decision to let it burn — it was in an unpopulated area and fighting it could have put firefighters’ lives at risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
The Farm was on the edge of a great unpopulated forest region, Tarrenpeth.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
