How to Use populace in a Sentence

populace

noun

• The populace has suffered greatly.
• 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
• Some of the coup leaders are popular and backed by the populace.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• 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
• Those who study the culture have heard grumbling among the populace about whether the sacrifice is worth it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The spot was roughly nine miles from the closest populace center of Ohio City, Colorado.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• 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
• Signs around Lahaina, Hawaii, reflect the pain and hope of a populace struggling to recover.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• This may be due to the gradual aging of the American populace.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 29 Nov. 2022
• These countries had empires in the past, and tend to feed their populace nostalgic delusions of grandeur in place of civic freedoms.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• MPs were the right constituency to choose a leader because they themselves have been elected by the populace.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• Teams are issued a cooking challenge, and then try out the resulting dish out on the local populace.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Afghans are a small slice of Boston’s populace, but after the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, their numbers here are growing.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• The general populace that’s looking at this s–t like, something’s wrong here.
  — Mark Braboy, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2022
• It soon was reprinted in scores of papers, triggering outrage in a nation where 95% of the populace is Buddhist.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• But, on the other hand, the tragedy gave Eleanor an opportunity to address the frightened populace, so, as the series seems to imply, not all bad?
  — The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• As Antigone points out to Creon, the silence of the cowed Theban populace is not exactly a ringing endorsement of his edict.
  — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 8 July 2022
• Now that the government has taken some responsibility for it, the state has a chance to regain trust of the populace.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2022
• At the same time, a robust capitalist sector was essential to maintain the loyalty of the populace to the regime.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
• The United States has done much to help this populace by providing weapons and ammunition.
  — Alexandra Chinchilla and Sam Rosenberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2023
• Like Churchill, Ardern had led her country through a dark time, but eventually lost the support of a crisis-weary populace, Baker said.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• And yet the bigamy trial of Elizabeth Chudleigh is what preoccupied aristocrats and politicians, along with a good portion of the British populace, at the time.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• An apathetic populace grinned and shrugged as a man who got sworn in on the strength of an anonymous opinion from a conservative Supreme Court earned the power to make war.
  — Marisa Kabas, The New Republic, 20 May 2022
• And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024