How to Use depopulate in a Sentence

depopulate

verb

• Large areas of the country had been depopulated by disease.
• The smart thing to do is before the virus takes off in a jail or prison to depopulate it safely and quickly.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• The push to depopulate the halls and camps comes as the state sends more young offenders into the county’s care.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Cities balloon or depopulate over the course of decades.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
• Wittenberg did fall, to that same Charles V who had depopulated Rome.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• The problem is there just aren’t enough urban areas in Iowa to offset the losses elsewhere, even as the cities grow while rural areas depopulate.
  — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 28 June 2022
• In 1989, when the orchestra moved back in, the Cass Corridor, as the immediate area is known, was run-down, depopulated, and crime-ridden.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
• In an effort to prevent spread of the disease, all birds on the properties were depopulated and the businesses will not be allowed to move poultry products.
  — Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
• In the same vein, according to many Muslims in the North, the Jonathan government was either fighting the group halfheartedly, or propping it up in order to depopulate the North ahead of the 2015 election.
  — Jideofor Adibe, Quartz Africa, 14 Nov. 2019
• The bloodshed was massive and the destruction epic, but Russia did wipe out the main separatist groups, depopulating the region and paving the way for a pro-Russian government.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
• And so the best Negan impression most have managed is to depopulate grocery store shelves of hand sanitizer, spaghetti (though not lasagna), and . .
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
• Chief executive Dave Bateman claims coronavirus vaccines are part of a plot to depopulate the Earth.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
• Some of the biggest conspiracies in recent years: Bill Gates is microchipping people with vaccines to depopulate the earth.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
• Since October up until today, there are 16 entire villages in the West Bank that have been depopulated.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• At a time when companies in depopulating eastern Germany need immigrants to fill skilled and unskilled jobs, some voters want to pull up the drawbridge.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• In fairness, real estate agents have to work hard to sell properties in depopulating rural parts of Germany.
  — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• Social media users are claiming that billionaire tech titan Bill Gates is part of a conspiracy to depopulate the Earth.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2022
• Yet over the past two centuries, these people have either moved away or died out, leaving the countryside increasingly depopulated and silent.
  — Patrick Joyce, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• The areas that were thereby depopulated remained so for a long time thereafter; many became the wildlife reserves for which Tanzania is famous today.
  — Carey Baraka, Quartz Africa, 26 Apr. 2020
• Commercial mailers posited a view of the postal network that was depopulated—their concerns over the smooth functioning of the network glossed over the people that actually made the system work.
  — Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
• In the Great Recession, a number of the businesses down in the Wilsonville area really depopulated really quickly.
  — OregonLive.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The policies instituted at the start of the pandemic, meanwhile, were public-health measures meant to quickly depopulate jails, which were home to numerous outbreaks of the then-new coronavirus.
  — Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
• More than 254 million birds have died of it or been depopulated worldwide, said David Swayne, a poultry veterinarian who specializes in avian flu, on a recent call with reporters.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Monet owned 14 works by his friend Renoir, a man whose works depicting cherubic women and vibrant group scenes contrasted sharply with Monet's own predilection for depopulated still lifes.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
• A year ago, Mike Ashley was being hailed as a possible savior of Britain’s rapidly depopulating shopping districts.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• The aim was to depopulate overcrowded prisons and address social justice concerns.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• The prime minister’s far-right buddies want to depopulate Gaza and exile its Palestinians to other countries, creating a second nakba that would leave the land open to new Jewish settlements.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
• The lack of immunity, though, doesn't fully explain why large regions of the US that had been inhabited by Native Americans were depopulated by the mid 17th-century.
  — John Blake, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• Nevertheless, the hospitals were depopulated and seven of them were closed.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• People knew about the shoes, but the ultimate extravagance to me was depopulating an island in the South China Sea, kicking off the indigenous people and bringing in exotic animals from Africa.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024