Example sentences for: populate

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  • There are underdogs of a kind in his books--McCoy in Bonfire and the good family man Conrad Hensley in A Man in Full . But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat . The lower orders in Wolfe's novels, such as those who populate the jail where Conrad Hensley is imprisoned, are barely above the level of animals.

  • We see it in the ghosts and doppelgängers who populate the melodramas of Amy Tan and her imitators.

  • Perhaps we surface-dwelling life forms are the exceptions--bizarre mutations of the normally deep-dwelling archeabacteria that populate the interiors of planets all over the galaxy.

  • The hippies who populate latte towns have finally embraced capitalism, and they are using private enterprise to build livable, prosperous cities.

  • They also populate a related show at the Pierpont Morgan Library, "Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections," which showcases some of Domenico's great studies of animals (Punchinello with an elephant, Punchinello riding a donkey).


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