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.
• But population growth has changed a lot of that.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 27 June 2026
• What has the world's population climbed to now?
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
• Maybe one per cent of the population.
  — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
• This would be the first look into what this population looks like.
  — Grace Galletti, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
• What does this bode for the near-term mental health of the population?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• This shortage has been linked to a rapid growth in the population.
  — Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• As the senior population grows, the need for care will grow, too.
  — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• Blacks make up slightly more than one-fourth of the population.
  — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 18 July 2023
• Half the population goes through it — and for decades, almost no one talked about it.
  — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
• 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
• Half the population will be going through menopause [at some point].
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• How would the population cap work?
  — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 June 2026
• First of all, their populations are much more diverse.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
• As a whole, the list is far Whiter and more male than the overall population.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• The track is building its population not from the top, but the bottom.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The population—there are so many people and I’m not good in crowds.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• That equates to roughly one-third of the British population at the time.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Half the prison population is Black.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• Some of the population has started to do some farming or to live in villages.
  — Diana Kwon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• The old-timers’ voices must have drowned in the population influx.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• Half the unauthorized population lived across these states at the time.
  — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• Suffice it to say, there are a number of populations to draw from in the West.
  — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Only a third of the population across Africa had any kind of broadband at all.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
• Pikeville is the largest city in the area — population just over 6,000.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2022
• The two fires claimed up to 5% of the world’s population of giant sequoias.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021