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.
• 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
• The track is building its population not from the top, but the bottom.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• That equates to roughly one-third of the British population at the time.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
• This would be the first look into what this population looks like.
  — Grace Galletti, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
• As a whole, the list is far Whiter and more male than the overall population.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• Blacks make up slightly more than one-fourth of the population.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2023
• 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
• The Fujianese population was the big turnover, to be honest with you.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• 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
• The results of a new survey of the U.S. population are due soon.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
• Half the population will be going through menopause [at some point].
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• And when the quokka population grows once more with the new births, the island will have selfies, in part, to thank.
  — Justin Curto, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The death toll is larger than the population of Boston.
  — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2021
• This will have to be proven in a larger population and also in other age groups.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2018
• Strong job and population growth are driving the demand.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 5 July 2018
• Critics say these bills will harm the small transgender population in the state.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• But why should the public even care about bringing back the sturgeon population?
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2022
• The population is aging faster than those bananas on your counter.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2020
• The two fires claimed up to 5% of the world’s population of giant sequoias.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• But all those fish dinners are taking a heavy toll on ocean populations.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• It’s not known how this stress-eating could affect lizard populations over the long term.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
• The population of range riders is small, and only a fraction of them are women.
  — Angela Dawson, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• This points to a large semi-urban and rural population that has yet been shielded from the virus.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 23 Feb. 2021
• 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
• All women — half our population — have to be conscious of that idea.
  — refinery29.com, 6 July 2018
• That will increase the population of animal species that thrive on plants.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Apr 2024