peopling

Example Sentences

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We were not simply inserting blacks, but repeopling the national perspective.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2017

Cicero, who had hitherto opposed an agrarian law with all his violence, discovered now that something might be said in favor of draining "the sink of the city" 13 and repeopling Italy.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

Then, however, the Russian government held out inducements to settlers, and these have been responded to by Russians, Greeks, Armenians and Rumanians, but the process of repeopling the long deserted territory is slow and difficult.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

He received about forty-two thousand acres in the counties of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary, and he set about repeopling this desolate region with his usual vigour of action.

From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew

Our master of ceremonies revelled that day in repeopling the queer old streets down into which we were looking from our charming elevation.

From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.