peopled
Example Sentences
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"It's a huge office that was all about men and money, and we've peopled it with a kind of female anarchy, which feels really exciting," said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who set up the project.
From BBC β Jun. 10, 2026
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon β Jul. 20, 2024
"The Palace", a comedy set in a Swiss hotel peopled with a cast of grotesque characters, stars Mickey Rourke, John Cleese, Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant and Joaquim De Almeida.
From Reuters β Sep. 2, 2023
This is the problem Ava Chin is up against in her sensitive, ambitious, well-reported, heavily peopled yet curiously remote memoir-cum-history, “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.”
From New York Times β Apr. 24, 2023
As Dessie remembered, she heard the words and the house around her grew peopled.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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