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

No less a scribe than William Shakespeare claimed that bees “teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024

Her narrative is peopled with physicians and psychologists heartlessly and casually breaching their professional responsibilities.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Of course, each form developed its own machinery for survival, and some failed and disappeared while others peopled the earth.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck