peopled

Example Sentences

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The village was peopled with "extraordinary, eccentric, cosmopolitan people, defeated by life", some of whom would later reappear in her fiction.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024

And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

"We want Dina Boluarte to resign," said Julio Saldivar, a protester from Ayacucho, where a dozen peopled died in December.

From Reuters • Jan. 19, 2023

The men who peopled the grill in the early hours of morning were not just regulars to the restaurant, they were regulars to the town and their family names were on street signs and monuments.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy