How to Use populous in a Sentence

populous

adjective

• The county is the most populous in the state and all of its top seats are up for grabs in 2024.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• As of May 2023, India is the most populous country in the world.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• Sharjah is known as the third-most populous city in the UAE.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
• Ian came ashore in the populous Lee County, home to the city of Fort Myers.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• The nearest big-box store is a 120-mile drive, one-way, from the tribe’s most populous town.
  — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 6 Dec. 2023
• That set a record for what is now the world’s most populous nation.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• The county is the fourth-most populous in the US and is home to Phoenix, the county website said.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 20 July 2024
• China has been the most populous nation in the world since at least 1750.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 5 July 2023
• Raised Catholic in the world’s most populous Black nation, I was struck by the irony that this was my first time in a church with Black saints.
  — Essence, 10 Oct. 2024
• In the case of China, the world’s most populous nation extracted a record amount of coal in the first eight months of 2022.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Evan Halper and Timothy Puko, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
• That’s an increase of 5.7%, the highest among the most populous metros and well ahead of the U.S. growth rate of 3.3% over the same period.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• For the first time since the mid-18th century, China isn’t the world’s most populous nation.
  — wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• Those counties, Richland and Charleston, are the second- and third-most populous counties in the state.
  — Ty Roush, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• New listings fell in all 50 of the most populous metros.
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Fouts wants to seek a fifth, four-year term as mayor of Michigan's third most populous city.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
• Some voters in the state’s most populous county were forced to wait in line for more than three hours to cast a ballot.
  — J.d. Davidson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Nov. 2024
• In the world’s 100 most populous cities, the average daily flight time would be 6 hours.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 7 May 2024
• Now a hedge against that risk is taking shape in — of all places — the northern outskirts of the most populous city in Arizona.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• In Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona, all of the top seats are up for grabs.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024
• Users could only choose cities within the top 50 most populous cities in the United States.
  — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2024
• Buncombe includes the tourist hub of Asheville, the region’s most populous city.
  — Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• In raw numbers, the Golden State is not only the most populous state but employs the most workers of any in the nation.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• Still, Phoenix gained some ground on the sixth most populous city Philadephia, cementing the Valley's spot as the fifth-largest.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024
• Then, the foreign aid groups who promised all sorts of help moved on as Ebola spread into more populous towns.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
• The storm, which hit last week, flooded the Fort Lauderdale area and set off a severe gas shortage in the state’s most populous region.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• More from California, but that's the most populous state, so that makes sense.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• The cuts are expected to boost exports to the world’s most populous country, which is a growing market for the tart red fruit.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• The South, already the most populous area of the country, was the fastest-growing and largest-gaining region in the U.S., Census data shows.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2022
• Mesa is closing in on Tucson for the title of the second most populous city in Arizona.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
• Stunning images emerged from Valencia, Spain’s third most populous city, showing dozens of cars wedged atop one another after having been carried by a wave of mud and debris into the walls of the narrow city streets.
  — Max Butterworth, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024