POPULATION in a Sentence

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202 example sentences for POPULATION, such as:

1. There was a steady increase in population.
2. The entire population of the town was at the meeting.
3. They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
4. California had experienced a phenomenal growth in population.
5. Of course there's provision in the plan for population increase.

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 Meanings and Examples of POPULATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
population
 n.  the people who inhabit a territory or state
 n.  the number of inhabitants in a given country, or city etc.
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  The civilian population had either to do without or buy at the speculators' prices, and the poor and those in moderate circumstances were suffering increasing hardships.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  In spite of all these trials and tribulations, Atlanta's ten thousand population had grown to double that number during the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  The commandants of the Yankee troops in the various cities had complete power, even the power of life and death, over the civilian population, and they used that power.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  He reinforced his pistol and knife with another pistol, and his fame spread far among the black population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  Memphis is fast losing her black population, who proclaim as they go that there is no protection for the life and property of any Afro-American citizen in Memphis who is not a slave.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  In Packingtown the advertisements had a style all of their own, adapted to the peculiar population.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  The rank and file, however, were either foisted upon the city, or else lived off the population directly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  So we have, at the present moment, a society with, say, thirty per cent of the population occupied in producing useless articles, and one per cent occupied in destroying them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
13  It was doubtless in consequence of a knowledge of this fact, that one great statesman of the south predicted the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  I supposed that they were about upon a level with the non-slaveholding population of the south.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  And upon coming to the north, I expected to meet with a rough, hard-handed, and uncultivated population, living in the most Spartan-like simplicity, knowing nothing of the ease, luxury, pomp, and grandeur of southern slaveholders.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
16  Later studies have taken care to define the diabetic population studied in terms of the presence or absence of complications.
17  The disease ping-pongs through the population.
18  The entire population of the town was at the meeting.
19  They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
20  There is one part of the country with an especially large Indian population.
21  They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.
22  A large majority of the population is demanding the restoration of the former government.
23  In the general population, right-handed people are in the majority.
24  California had experienced a phenomenal growth in population.
25  The researchers made a conservative guess at the population of Tokyo.
26  The population is categorized according to age, sex, and social group.
27  Most of the local population depend on fishing for their income.
28  Real income per head of population was at a low point five years ago.
29  There was a steady increase in population.
30  Of course there's provision in the plan for population increase.