Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

people

[pee-puhl] / ˈpi pəl /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“I think it makes it possible for people to dream about a future they once thought was out of reach.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“It’s almost like summer camp for people that love Christmas movies,” said Whitney Andelius, 34.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

“It’s going to allow tens of thousands of people to get compensation for exposure to PFAS.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

When leaders finally tried to bring promises back in line with what the economy can sustain, people took to the streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Around two hundred thousand people are diagnosed with leprosy each year.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Yet he says neither side is lying, something that is “not confusing if you understand the trauma that native peoples are still experiencing to this day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Foran said that at the time, the colonies that later became Canada relied on Great Britain and its Royal Navy for its defence, as well as indigenous peoples who served as generals in major battles.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The remains "belong to our two peoples", Radev said as he attended a ceremony to mark the return alongside Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

She saw mythological narratives as vessels in which we can see essential truths about how peoples of the past understood their world and their place in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

These were not just hunting paths that followed game trails or routes that peoples could easily follow during seasonal migrations.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The village was peopled with "extraordinary, eccentric, cosmopolitan people, defeated by life", some of whom would later reappear in her fiction.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024

The system of transporting criminals to Siberia has proved, the more the territory became peopled with voluntary settlers, prejudicial to Siberia itself.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2024

Muñoz’s stories are peopled by furtive figures who grapple with survival and loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

In the rhythmic clacking of the train and the stirring, peopled silence of the car, I feel cocooned.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

But he also may have been seeking to expand the notion of the American polity, peopling the Revolutionary moment with groups typically excluded from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

"People like me who are interested in the peopling of the Americas are very interested in knowing if those first Americans came with dogs," Lanoë added.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

“It really seems like a peopling of Europe after the last glacial maximum,” he said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

“This is fascinating work,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, paleogeneticist Jennifer Raff, who studies the early peopling of the Americas, wrote in an email.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022

The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


Vocabulary lists containing people

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training