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

“Horizon” is absurdly over-plotted and peopled with redundant characters, lending it an epic “scope” that aspires to an E.L.

From Los Angeles Times • May 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 • Sep. 2, 2023

In the form of lovely youths and maidens they peopled the woodland, the forest, the rivers, the sea, in harmony with the fair earth and the bright waters.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton