How to Use populace in a Sentence

populace

noun
  • The populace has suffered greatly.
  • 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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