overpopulated

Example Sentences

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Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024

“We’re overpopulated now and with schools and everything else, it’s just a difficult time.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

But let’s face facts: The biggest dilemma for solving homelessness in California is the extraordinarily high cost of housing in this overpopulated state.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Instead of moving 90,000 residents out of the overpopulated district and into the underpopulated one, the state swapped more than 50,000 residents into the overpopulated district and moved 140,000 residents out of it.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2023

And it's amazing to me, because I can look at everything—the whole overpopulated, overtraveled, overtrucked, overpaved, overbillboarded, full-color, three-dimensional world zipping by at seventy miles an hour—and I can get bored.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements