peopled

Example Sentences

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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

And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2023

They were holding a great flying-meet way up over the heads of the mourners and some of the nearby trees were already peopled with the stoop-shouldered forms.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston