Wondering how to use Depopulate in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as desolate or shrink.
Depopulate meaning
- To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- To remove the components from a circuit board.
- To become depopulated, to lose its population.
Using Depopulate
- The main meaning on this page is: To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc. | To remove the components from a circuit board. | To become depopulated, to lose its population.
- Useful related words include: desolate, shrink, reduce.
- In the example corpus, depopulate often appears in combinations such as: to depopulate, depopulate the.
Context around Depopulate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Depopulate
- In this selection, "depopulate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, criminals, israelis, christians, opposition and destroy stand out and add context to how "depopulate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aims to depopulate opposition areas and cleansing to depopulate the areas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "depopulate" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with depopulate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Squeeze out assets and let criminals depopulate each other. (9 words)
The rebels deny this and say the government aims to depopulate opposition areas. (13 words)
Palestinians accuse Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing to depopulate the areas at the northern edge to create a buffer zone. (21 words)
The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes. (36 words)
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner loves the oceanfront views in Gaza and wants to see it developed as oceanfront real estate after, as he recommends, the Israelis depopulate it. (31 words)
Some say it is all part of a long-term plan to depopulate the Lower Darling and Menindee Lakes and clear the way for rare earth mineral extraction. (28 words)
And how many more virus-exposed inmates have also been granted early releases back into our communities in the state's effort to depopulate its facilities? (26 words)
Example sentences (9)
Squeeze out assets and let criminals depopulate each other.
Palestinians accuse Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing to depopulate the areas at the northern edge to create a buffer zone.
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner loves the oceanfront views in Gaza and wants to see it developed as oceanfront real estate after, as he recommends, the Israelis depopulate it.
And how many more virus-exposed inmates have also been granted early releases back into our communities in the state's effort to depopulate its facilities?
President Buhari was accused of supporting Boko Haram to kill Nigerians and his government was pursuing a policy to depopulate Christians.
Some say it is all part of a long-term plan to depopulate the Lower Darling and Menindee Lakes and clear the way for rare earth mineral extraction.
The rebels deny this and say the government aims to depopulate opposition areas.
The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.
They can materialize anywhere, including in darkened bedrooms, and they see in the dark; offering malicious comments on mating couples in order to depopulate the planet.
Common combinations with depopulate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to depopulate 7×
- depopulate the 3×