Examples of depopulate in a Sentence
Large areas of the country had been depopulated by disease.
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For example, workers in Colorado were infected while depopulating birds in hot barns with industrial fans blowing.
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Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
By this point in the war, the surrounding neighborhood, Zeitoun, was largely depopulated.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
The atomic age has already produced a wide number of nuclear exclusion zones dangerous to humans and depopulated.
—Thomas Bass
author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
State agencies have depopulated and disposed of a non-commercial, mixed-species backyard flock (non-poultry) in Essex County due to the virus.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
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Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
By this point in the war, the surrounding neighborhood, Zeitoun, was largely depopulated.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
The atomic age has already produced a wide number of nuclear exclusion zones dangerous to humans and depopulated.
—Thomas Bass
author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
State agencies have depopulated and disposed of a non-commercial, mixed-species backyard flock (non-poultry) in Essex County due to the virus.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
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“Depopulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depopulate. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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depopulate
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de·pop·u·late
(ˈ)dē-ˈpäp-yə-ˌlāt 
: to reduce greatly the population of (as a city or region) by destroying or driving away the inhabitants
depopulated by plague
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