How to Use population explosion in a Sentence

population explosion

noun

• The population explosion was centered in the metro areas in the north, led by Wasatch County’s eye-popping 47.8% leap in the past decade.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• People worry what the population explosion will mean will mean for the already low wages many Bangladeshis here count on.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
• New housing starts are at a 12-year high and cranes dot the skyline as developers seek to meet the demands of the city’s population explosion.
  — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• But as growth soars in the major metro areas, spillover from the population explosion has led to a development boon in the Hill Country.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2022
• There has been a huge population explosion in the past few millennia.
  — William Poundstone, Vox, 5 July 2019
• Some have barely made an impact and have died out, while others have found the right conditions for a population explosion.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Scores of fallow fields and a resurgence of the hare and wild pig population have been attributed to the Hyalomma population explosion in the region (d).
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2011
• That growth has been fueled by a population explosion that has seen Meridian nearly triple in size since 2000.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
• Despite all the challenges of making a home here, the island has seen something of a recent population explosion, at least in percentage terms.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• De Wit pushes back on the boaters' theory that the manatee population explosion is to blame for eating themselves out of habitat and home.
  — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• But Mayorquin, who grew up in Seattle, sees a silver lining amid the city’s recent population explosion.
  — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• This type of population explosion is typical for the entire area.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• In a world of finite arable land and fresh water, however, the margins of error diminish with change to any of the conditions that fostered the population explosion — e.g. a good climate.
  — Eugene Linden, Time, 9 Apr. 2020
• In few places is that tension more evident than along Colorado’s Front Range, where a fracking boom is colliding with a population explosion.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• People of color fueled the state’s population explosion since 2010, with much of the growth concentrated in cities and suburbs, census data show.
  — Sami Sparber, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• Hamsters ate the crops around their burrows and sometimes destroyed swaths of farmland during population explosions, when as many as 2,000 crowded into a single hectare.
  — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• The jellyfish population explosion has blossomed for years, but got a special boost since 2015 with the broadening of the Suez Canal, which opened up an aquatic superhighway for invasive species to the Mediterranean.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• Sea otters and some 800 other marine species depend on them, as do fishers in the state’s abalone and red urchin industries, now devastated by a purple urchin population explosion.
  — Maurice Roper, National Geographic, 30 Apr. 2020
• The Roman Catholic Church is responsible for the population explosion.
  — Joel E Cohen, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• In a microbiology lab, that's a sure-fire sign that the bacteria in a flask have experienced a population explosion.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2012
• But more than a century of largely unchecked reproduction has led to a population explosion well beyond what the land and residents can tolerate.
  — Maggie Shannon Jill Cowan, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
• The policy was intended to curb China's population explosion but led to acts of cruelty.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 1 July 2021
• An unanticipated population explosion had taken place along the L line in Brooklyn, as young people were driven out of Manhattan by high rents.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
• Both also acknowledged that will pose major challenges, especially in light of Herriman’s population explosion and the problems that have come with it.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
• Their absence disrupted predator-and-prey relationships throughout the nation and resulted in a population explosion of deer and elk.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Exacerbating all this, of course, is Africa’s population explosion and the concomitant increase in the numbers of cattle, goats, horses, and donkeys (lion prey) that rural people keep in their villages and bomas.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2019
• The public’s positive reaction to the Craftsman and the housing boom and population explosion triggered by the fair forever cemented the demand for what has become Portland’s signature home style.
  — oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
• Supporters of the ordinances in Mahwah view them as vital steps to ward off population explosions that would lead to affordability, housing and overcrowding issues.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• The 15-member panel tasked with redrawing county commission boundaries in the wake of Orange County’s population explosion over the last decade appears to have settled on a map, which would keep Hispanic voting majorities in two districts.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• The population explosion that followed the successful fair cemented demand for the sturdy dwellings fronted by covered porches and substantial columns.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024