depopulate

Example Sentences

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After a year of combat and destruction in the region, the two armies are fighting mostly over ruins in a depopulated region.

From New York Times

The depopulated area, under-lighting and slow windup plant a question mark or two in your head, as do the off-key performances, which border on the affectless.

From New York Times

It also stressed the economic role of cattle-rearing in Spain's depopulated rural areas.

From Reuters

Even as the battle over the law continued, private prisons were being rendered less necessary as they were depopulated because of the pandemic and fewer people being detained.

From Los Angeles Times

To illustrate our depopulated future, the media invokes empty bassinets, abandoned houses and lonely elders.

From Washington Post