How to Use overpopulate in a Sentence

overpopulate

verb
  • The world was overpopulated, had been for about a century and a half.
    — Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Tired of the old-school hoops and baroque pearls overpopulating your Instagram feed?
    — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 18 July 2018
  • Macmanus slightly overplays his hand and slightly overpopulates the show’s world.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • At least 15 hotels are still closed and those open are overpopulated with recovery teams.
    — Bryan Llenas | Fox News, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Certain prey species would overpopulate and disrupt fisheries.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The Ravens had no shortage of defensive options after the first half of the first round was overpopulated by offensive players.
    — baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Both are overpopulated with feral and stray animals due to this lack of population management.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • Too much of it creates toxic levels for humans and can overpopulate algae that destabilizes waterway ecosystems.
    — Rick Kambic, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • This kind of management doesn’t work as well in places like southern Michigan, however, where deer herds are overpopulated in many farms and neighborhoods.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Bangladesh, already overpopulated at 160 million people, is one of the world's poorest countries.
    — Mandakini Gahlot, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
  • And when burros overpopulate and damage areas of the western United States, they are rounded up and sent to corrals to manage their numbers.
    — Meghan Dunn, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
  • If left to overpopulate, elk and deer ravage the vegetation, and that can affect everything from erosion to river temperatures.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The planet is becoming overpopulated -- with humans, that is, not Javan rhinos or Sumatran tigers.
    — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Thanos is the ultimate Malthusian, believing that the universe is overpopulated and will eventually run out of resources—precisely what happened to his own home town.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The invasive—and drastically overpopulating—species prevailed over the scientists’ 20-year electric culling campaign by evolving to grow faster and spawn younger.
    — Martin J. Kernan, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The argument that the world is overpopulated—and that control of birth rates holds the key to reversing climate change—dates back to Malthus, and remains a stubborn presence in the climate change debate today.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • Toilet Paper Rolls Seedling starters can also prevent your garden from being overpopulated after planting too many viable seeds.
    — Rebecca Shinners, Country Living, 19 Feb. 2017
  • Turns out its show-offy wordiness is much better suited to Cumberbatch’s very sophisticated air, though even his take on the many characters that overpopulate this short narrative lost me around the six-and-a-half-hour mark.
    — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 23 June 2021
  • Baltimore's plan to cut down the deer population Baltimore City Rec and Parks officials say deer are overpopulated in the city.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Set in Portland, Oregon, in a bleak, overpopulated near future, The Lathe of Heaven is built around the banal question What if your dreams came true?
    — Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • White men, however, still run corporate life and continue to overpopulate management ranks, despite a diversifying pipeline and the fact that, well, companies with diverse leaders make more money.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Overpopulated deer in Baltimore Baltimore officials say deer are overpopulated in the city.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Springbok and kudu are overpopulated in parts of South Africa, so the government grants certain South African tribes a certain number of the animals to cull to help manage the population.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The city has said the prairie dogs are overpopulated, carry disease and are destroying property, according to a City Council presentation from the April 8 meeting.
    — James Burky, The Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • This twisty book, overpopulated by the walking wounded, devotes more than enough time to diagnosing Judy’s narcissistic personality disorder.
    — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Navajo Nation officials warn that feral horses have overpopulated the reservation beyond the ecosystem’s ability to support them and have attempted at least once to forcibly reduce the population.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 13 July 2018
  • The 35th District, in contrast, was found to have been overpopulated with Hispanics, depriving them of the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice in a neighboring district.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In-house and open-source solutions are useful for customers who find commercial SIEM platforms overpopulated with excessive features and are ready to support and modify their products or engage third-party specialists.
    — David Balaban, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The ruling came after a seven-day trial in which attorneys for migrants who sued back in 2015 claimed the facilities were overpopulated, overly cold and unsanitary, according to The Associated Press.
    — Nick Givas, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020

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