How to Use populace in a Sentence
populace
noun- The populace has suffered greatly.
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This does not win the hearts and minds of the populace.
— Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021 -
And the attire at the creek reflects the city’s populace.
— Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023 -
What effect did this have on the populace, on the country as a whole?
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023 -
The campaign’s main target is the two-thirds of the Saudi populace who are under the age of 35.
— Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2022 -
Not with more than half of the populace feeling that these Olympics should be called off even now.
— BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021 -
Some of the coup leaders are popular and backed by the populace.
— Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023 -
That the arrogant Fleischman doesn’t take to the place – even as the town populace (or most of it) takes to him – is the stuff of which TV shows are made.
— Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020 -
But the real marvel to me is the very process of how a vaccine travels from the minds of scientists to the arms of the populace.
— Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020 -
For the greater populace, flying back to the Moon might not sound exciting.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Apr. 2022 -
And the American populace doesn’t seem to like this change from many decades of, well, trickle-down.
— Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 July 2023 -
That doesn’t point to a populace that no longer enjoys shopping outside of the home.
— Matt Rubel, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020 -
And while Latinos make up more than a third of the populace in those counties, only three are judges, all of them on the felony bench.
— Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 19 July 2020 -
Those who study the culture have heard grumbling among the populace about whether the sacrifice is worth it.
— Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022 -
It’s not the East or West Coast, where the populace is, that everybody’s talking about.
— Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020 -
The story is: Unseen mysteries have kept the populace in a state of fear.
— Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 -
For much of the populace, talk of death can be morbid, grim or unsettling.
— Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2022 -
Shots are fired and tires are burned, sending plumes of black smoke above an already jumpy populace.
— Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2021 -
The virus has gripped India’s populace with a severity not seen in its first wave.
— Angus Whitley, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021 -
The spot was roughly nine miles from the closest populace center of Ohio City, Colorado.
— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023 -
His brigade is among those that have been deployed in a city to subdue an angry populace by force.
— New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021 -
Cool as a cucumber, June strolls out of Morgan Town as the populace stares on in shock and amazement.
— Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 -
Yet politicians push their preferences on the populace and insist that a nudge is not a shove.
— Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2024 -
The virus had also spread to some members of the general populace.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 July 2020 -
By midnight the populace has had a fair amount to drink and that makes the discussions in the piazza even more heated.
— Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020 -
But is there a country on Earth where the populace is plagued by exactly none of the United States’ problems?
— Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022 -
Worse, the party could have faced a populace that directly blamed it for the outbreak—with good reason.
— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022 -
White people make up 44% of the city’s populace and Hispanics 39%.
— Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2021 -
Implications of a wealthy populace The legions of the wealthy in India are consequential to the nation’s growth story.
— Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024 -
Both moose and orcas are fascinating animals that continue to surprise scientists and the general populace alike.
— Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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