Example Sentences

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Like Dickens, Tyler sketches a well-peopled larger community, bustling with friends, lovers and bit players.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

It is further evidence that the wolf is returning to well-peopled landscapes after centuries of persecution, with wolf packs also re-establishing themselves in France and Germany and individuals sighted in Holland and even Luxembourg.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2017

They had traversed a country well-peopled with English peasantry, without any attacks except upon such marauders as strayed from their main body.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

Here we are passing through a well-peopled, fruitful region--a prolonged valley, for we have the highlands far on our right.

From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by Blaikie, William Garden

Horses and cattle were gone also and its loneliness was accentuated by the fact that not so long before it had been a well-peopled land, where now the houses stood empty and silent.

From The Tree of Appomattox by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)