How to Use people in a Sentence

people

1 of 2 noun

• People think the coach should be fired.
• She tends to annoy people.
• People say it's impossible, but I'm still going to try.
• People can be really cruel sometimes.
• Dozens of people fled to the ocean seeking refuge from the flames.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• The question was whether the same would be true in people.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• But there are a lot of people who have never read the books.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 June 2023
• The strikes killed at least five people and wounded six, the Houthis said.
  — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
• After the shooting stopped, people went back to the trucks, and the soldiers opened fire again.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2024
• For the restaurants themselves, the spate of people looking for work has been a boon.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2023
• One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 7 June 2023
• As more people opt out of the fishery, their vessels are worth less.
  — Jack Darrell, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• There are a couple of people in the choir who actually sang on the first.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• The show, which runs next March, has been seen by more than 100 million people worldwide.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• The audience at the awards show itself seemed too stunned — and amused — to reflect on if people would care about the bit.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024
• Thousands of people on both sides have been killed and many more injured over decades.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• More than 100 people have died in heat waves in the United States and India so far this summer.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• When people become obsessed with it, that says as much about them and their world as the thing itself.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• More than 5,000 people have already snapped up the set in the past month, and the satisfied reviews are starting to roll in.
  — Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024
• Roberts might as well ask why Buzz Aldrin doesn’t engage with people who think the Moon landing was faked.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
• The catchphrase seems to embody how most people feel about their trusty sidekick that doesn’t leave their sight.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
• Why do people seem not to notice or care that those around them may not wish to listen to their choice of music?
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• The script doesn’t explain why Reuben’s closest friends are people who have mostly not stayed in touch.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• But there were many, many people who wanted what WFB had to offer, and even hungered for it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• But, to most people, a CT scan can feel abstract and nebulous.
  — Vivian Ewing, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• None of those come cheap, of course, but lots of people will be looking up to the princess as a figure of aspiration.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
• Within that group, one in four are young people ranging from preschool to college ages.
  — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2024
• Because there’s a lot of different kind of people in the world who need to hear all the different sides of stories.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• So were six other protesters from a crowd of about 200 people.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• The idea is to celebrate the accomplishments of our young people.
  — The Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2024

Advertisement

people

2 of 2 verb

• To be sure, the costs of peopling Mars are substantial.
  — James Poulos, Orange County Register, 29 Apr. 2017
• The upper part of the valley is well peopled, and many of the hills are cultivated high up.
  — Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020
• Inside, the small, low-ceilinged rooms are peopled with pilgrims.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
• And now people all over the world are celebrating, too.
  — Robyn Flans, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
• Yeah, this has been sort of an area peopled by a lot of big competitors; Symantec, and others, over the years.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Oct. 2018
• The Losing Loop costs people their health, their marriages, and sometimes their lives.
  — Toby Mathis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Most of the floors had at least a few offices with the lights on, at least some of them peopled with executives trying to figure out what to do now.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• Now 30, Jessica recently spoke to People about what adult life is like for the most famous baby in the world.
  — Diana Bruk, Good Housekeeping, 8 Mar. 2017
• Two peopled died in Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, after a car fell from the fourth floor of a parking garage.
  — Josiah Bates, Time, 23 Oct. 2019
• The gravestone stands on a pedestal against a wall near the center of the main Roman gallery—a bright, airy, high-ceilinged hangar peopled with pearly monuments and shuffling retirees.
  — Chris Pomorski, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
• The place was bustling Thursday afternoon as peopled browsed through guitars, drums, keyboards and more.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2019
• And like his namesake from the popular sitcom, this Joey Tribbiani is also a fun-loving guy who people love to be around.
  — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 1 Nov. 2019
• That’s a perspective both want to give their kids: a deep understanding that the country is huge, the view wide, the landscape peopled with family and friends.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• The movement had been peopled by middle-class, civically minded women for a long, long time.
  — Helaine Olen, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Years of dust cover the vista of train tracks, railroad stations, village stores and tiny figures peopling the miniature landscape.
  — Kathy Routliffe, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
• Stettheimer peopled her pictures with willowy figures—women in slinky gowns and men in close-fitting suits.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• The story is set in Ohio after the Civil War, peopled by characters who fled slavery but remain haunted by it.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• In fact, Santa is mortified to discover his list is peopled with children who've been bad.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• Protests have mostly been peopled by the young, those on college campuses and those who can take a day off to vent without bearing much consequence.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com, 2 June 2020
• Its stories would be peopled with renowned chefs, artists, and other luminaries.
  — Joan Walden, courant.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Both writers invented a place and, in novel after novel, peopled it with the same characters.
  — Edmund White, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Farming support groups are not normally peopled with killers.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2019
• Sokh, for instance, although part of Uzbekistan and encircled by Kyrgyzstan, is peopled mostly by Tajiks.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Its universe is one peopled almost entirely with white men looking to out-alpha male one another — a fantasy of the 1960s and not a reflection of the actual era.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 13 Nov. 2019
• The handsome two-bedroom apartment functions as a shrine to a different New York, a different Hollywood: when movies were about silver screens, not touch-screens; when those who peopled them were stars, not celebrities.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• Broadly speaking, they are peopled by creative types, like the mostly professional writers whose columns these are.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• The voices created the Paynes, the Browns, the Cryers and countless other characters and caricatures that peopled Perry’s plays, movies and television series.
  — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• With the upcoming New Year's holiday, more people visited the beach, and thanks to unseasonably warm weather there, more peopled headed into the water.
  — National Geographic, 5 Jan. 2018
• Within 500 years, these migrants were thought to have successfully peopled the Americas—leaving behind a type of fluted stone point that became a calling card of sort for the Clovis culture.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2017
• But his novels, which are peopled with both emperors and peasants, encompass an explosive range of sensation and emotion.
  — Jacqueline Carey, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2016

Last Updated: 3 May 2024