People means plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like group or folk.
People in a sentence
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People meaning
- plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
- Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
- A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
Example sentences (20)
Umar told newsmen in Sokoto on Monday that he would ensure a government of the people, for the people and by the people.
Alcohol poisoning killed five people, cocaine killed four people and methamphetamine killed two people.
It works different ways with different people, some people can't eat, some people have to eat a lot.
No. He was a choice of the people except if people wanted me to bend my hand and become autocratic by forcing someone on the people.
We’re going to feed people, we’re going to clothe people, we’re going to share the Gospel with people and we’re going to love people.
But there's older people, smaller people, younger people - and then there's Concetta Mazzulli.
It of people who have no job and are seeking work to the number of people in the labor force (people with jobs and people looking for jobs).
Three: Manage the meeting time Highly successful people are busy people, and busy people tend to get even busier as a day or a week goes on.
For people to truly combat anti-Blackness, they’d first be forced to humanize Black people, something many non-Black people aren’t ready to do.
The prime minister said the people who migrated from India to Jamaica nearly 180 years ago laid the strong foundations of people-to-people ties.
Almost daily, for months, he has reminded people, urged people, pleaded with people.
He said: “We have people from different countries, we have people from here in the city, we have people who live in hostels and some who sofa surf.
Don't discount old people, poor people, or people with some preexisting condition.
This feeling people had inside Russia, and outside, that you came and you saw people just like yourself, people who are against Putin, against the war.
Cops are responding to calls about people who live outside, about people having a psychotic break or people who may be in the act of committing a crime.
I mean, most of the people I interacted with were either people who needed something from me, people I needed something from or people who worked for me.
All leaders have their vision, they have their directions for their people but only good leaders have a pro-people agenda for the goodness of the people.
A lack of awareness of the benefits of cycling is compounded by societal marginalisation - many people still feel rich people drive and poor people cycle.
Downing Street said the advice would allow people much more social contact, allow people to see both sets of grandparents and have people over for dinner.
The overall manpower inside the TBM would include a maximum of 10 people from BMC, 20 people from PMC and five more people from the Chinese maker of the TBM.
Phrases with people
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with people
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the people 65×
- people who 61×
- people and 42×
- of people 36×
- people to 29×
- people with 28×
- people are 27×
- people of 20×
- and people 20×
- people in 20×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word people. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.