How to Use underpopulated in a Sentence

underpopulated

adjective

• Ten Years Taiwan kicks off on Lanyu, a small, windswept and underpopulated island off the eastern coast of Taiwan.
  — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2018
• Many of us have been in funeral homes like Sebrell’s and have attended memorials of various sizes—the wakes that teem with mourners, the calling hours that feel underpopulated.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• In recent years, Huawei surveillance cameras made to track cars and people have also gone up in the country’s biggest cities and in the underpopulated capital Naypyidaw.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• To be sure, there was no place near Germany that was uninhabited or even underpopulated.
  — Timothy Snyder, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• Third, the system to determine seats by states will give greater representation to rural, underpopulated areas, which is where Chávismo — the movement named after the late Hugo Chávez and behind Maduro — is stronger.
  — Javier Corrales, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• And, of course, there’s also Virbela and its kin of strange, underpopulated thingies snatched right out of a 2005 iteration of Internet Explorer.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
• Restaurants, where reservations are harder to come by than scoring a table at Polo Bar, were underpopulated.
  — William Earl, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
• For all the recent growth in neighborhoods like Dumbo and Williamsburg, large pockets of the city remain underpopulated and underdeveloped.
  — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• That results in votes cast in underpopulated districts carrying more weight than the votes cast in overpopulated districts.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2021
• But elsewhere in Miranda’s shrinking world, with its De Chirico shadows in underpopulated streets, Thoman conjures beauty and shudders in equal measure.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The Japanese government already offers incentives for migrating to underpopulated areas, but the new sum is three times the current one.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Jan. 2023
• Now President Biden will appear before an underpopulated, socially distanced chamber for the second year in a row.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 2 Feb. 2022
• The district is in the process of redrawing school boundary lines to add more students to underpopulated schools, reduce overcrowding at others and address a declining enrollment expected in coming years.
  — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Midtown is still eerily underpopulated, especially at night, when Under the Volcano is open.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• Still, the Financial District is underpopulated on Mondays and Fridays.
  — Anissa Gardizy, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• For the past year, downtown has been depressingly underpopulated.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Those estimates reject the myth of an underdeveloped, underpopulated African continent that lagged behind the development of the West.
  — Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
• Traces of conservatism remain, most visibly in the (oddly underpopulated) newsroom’s Barbie-pink walls.
  — Mike McCahill, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
• Occupancy in downtown’s residential buildings has held steady and even grown as new units came to market, but the big office towers built to serve white-collar businesses have remained stubbornly underpopulated.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• If your team lives in places underpopulated with cultural attractions, choose a destination that offers a breadth of cultural activities to keep everyone engaged.
  — Tracey Sawyer, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Attending an underpopulated high school can be demoralizing for students and lead to limited course offerings and unequal resources compared with neighboring schools, board member Jolene Mosley said.
  — Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• With continued efforts to help underpopulated districts grow and offer more opportunities for their residents, commissioners also focused on splitting the billion-dollar bayfront project, which sat in District 2 only.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
• Whitetail herds overpopulated with does and underpopulated with mature bucks.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• While evidently made with the most earnest good intentions, this humanistic study of life in and around an underpopulated Native American reservation is gratuitously slow, ponderous and performed with awkward stiffness by its unfortunate cast.
  — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• Smart understands sympathy won’t save Texas even after traversing through weeks of underpopulated facilities, practice sessions with a handful (or fewer) of scholarship players and deepening uncertainty.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2021
• If office buildings remain underpopulated, London could develop like Paris, with more residential neighborhoods downtown.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• The touch of underpopulated unreality has an unexpected emotional pull.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
• Algorithms are already used to detect vandalism and identify underpopulated articles.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2018
• But other underpopulated frontier countries have, despite their apparent self-interest, successfully resisted immigration from different societies before.
  — Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 11 July 2017

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024