How to Use population in a Sentence

population

noun

• There has been a sharp reduction in the bat population in this region.
• The world's population has increased greatly.
• The city has experienced an increase in population.
• Pikeville is the largest city in the area — population just over 6,000.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2022
• That equates to roughly one-third of the British population at the time.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
• The best way to figure out how far and wide the virus has spread in a population is to look at blood.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 7 Apr. 2020
• As a whole, the list is far Whiter and more male than the overall population.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• All 10 of the cities in which the movie performed best have large black populations.
  — Andrew Grant-Thomas and Melissa Giraud, Good Housekeeping, 11 Oct. 2018
• The results of a new survey of the U.S. population are due soon.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
• The track is building its population not from the top, but the bottom.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• By his count, twenty per cent of the population of Italy owned about eighty per cent of the land.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The wildest part: Latines make up just under 20% of the U.S. population.
  — Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The two fires claimed up to 5% of the world’s population of giant sequoias.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The Fujianese population was the big turnover, to be honest with you.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• And when the quokka population grows once more with the new births, the island will have selfies, in part, to thank.
  — Justin Curto, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• This is the first time that the population seroprevalence is over 50%.
  — Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
• The price, the CEO said, could even come down if the population of patients who took the drug expanded.
  — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• These are the rich nations that comprise just 15% of the world’s population.
  — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• That’s the weight of 45 billion people or about six times the world’s population.
  — IndyStar, 18 Jan. 2021
• Of the total population, 57% are black and 42% are white.
  — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• The old-timers’ voices must have drowned in the population influx.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• This would be the first look into what this population looks like.
  — Grace Galletti, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
• In the past 50 years, the human population has more than doubled.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 14 Feb. 2020
• Blacks make up slightly more than one-fourth of the population.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2023
• In all, just under 57% of the total population has had at least one shot.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2021
• Half the population will be going through menopause [at some point].
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• Some of the population has started to do some farming or to live in villages.
  — Diana Kwon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Baghdad, with its population of more than seven million, is one of the largest cities in the Arab world.
  — Yasmine Mosimann Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• The two candidates will both stop in Reading, a city with a population that is over 69% Latino.
  — Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
• Detainees either were in a general population and could be outside their cells for hours a day, or confined for all but 15 to 45 minutes.
  — Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024