Example Sentences

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He decides to try to reach the frigid, unpopulous island of Hokkaido, several hundred miles to the north.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Germany's famed Banse invasion plan called for boats to beach between unpopulous seaside resorts like Wells, Cromer and Lowestoft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, conservationists argue for keeping this unpopulous region as close to nature as possible.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It was a forgotten corner of a not unpopulous county—the farthest portion of a belt of primeval forest land, older than history itself.

From The Missioner by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire; Scotland, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile, and unpopulous.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis