- a word derived from populous.
Example Sentences
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So Germany's famed Banse invasion plan called for boats to beach between unpopulous seaside resorts like Wells, Cromer and Lowestoft.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He decides to try to reach the frigid, unpopulous island of Hokkaido, several hundred miles to the north.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Meanwhile, conservationists argue for keeping this unpopulous region as close to nature as possible.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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So we went wandering through a rather unpopulous, semi-mountainous land—a prosperous land, from the look of it, with big isolated factory plants here and there by strongly flowing streams.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
It was a forgotten corner of a not unpopulous county—the farthest portion of a belt of primeval forest land, older than history itself.
From The Missioner by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)