How to Use population in a Sentence

population

noun
Definition of populationnext
  • 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.
  • Pikeville is the largest city in the area — population just over 6,000.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2022
  • That equates to roughly one-third of the British population at the time.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
  • 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
  • As a whole, the list is far Whiter and more male than the overall population.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The results of a new survey of the U.S. population are due soon.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The track is building its population not from the top, but the bottom.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 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
  • The wildest part: Latines make up just under 20% of the U.S. population.
    — Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The two fires claimed up to 5% of the world’s population of giant sequoias.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The Fujianese population was the big turnover, to be honest with you.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 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
  • This is the first time that the population seroprevalence is over 50%.
    — Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The price, the CEO said, could even come down if the population of patients who took the drug expanded.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • These are the rich nations that comprise just 15% of the world’s population.
    — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • That’s the weight of 45 billion people or about six times the world’s population.
    — IndyStar, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Of the total population, 57% are black and 42% are white.
    — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The old-timers’ voices must have drowned in the population influx.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
  • This would be the first look into what this population looks like.
    — Grace Galletti, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
  • In the past 50 years, the human population has more than doubled.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Blacks make up slightly more than one-fourth of the population.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 18 July 2023
  • In all, just under 57% of the total population has had at least one shot.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Half the population will be going through menopause [at some point].
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the population has started to do some farming or to live in villages.
    — Diana Kwon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Baghdad, with its population of more than seven million, is one of the largest cities in the Arab world.
    — Yasmine Mosimann Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Currently about 65% of the U.S. population is in a state with legal betting.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But now, there is a growing population as the Chinese government incentivizes hundreds of people to settle there from across Tibet, the region of China that borders Bhutan.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024

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