How to Use people in a Sentence

people

1 of 2 noun
  • People think the coach should be fired.
  • She tends to annoy people.
  • People say it's impossible, but I'm still going to try.
  • People can be really cruel sometimes.
  • There are about nine people in there.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And even just people had seen our clips.
    — Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • What do people get wrong about you?
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Why do people fall for these types of scams?
    — Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
  • These five people all played a role.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • That’s how people get messed up.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The film gives a lot of weight to young people.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • Some people can skip lunch; some can’t.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That’s done a lot of good for a lot of people.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Told people when their work wasn’t good enough.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
  • That just seemed like a fun curve ball to throw at these people.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And now, thanks to that star, people will once again walk all over her.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Jan. 2026
  • What type of football do people want to see?
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • You get caught up into who these people are.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And there are going to be people that are not for me.
    — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • About 60 people filled the room.
    — Angela Palermo april 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But a few people risk it anyway.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Even though older people love it, don’t get me wrong.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Some people just need to be careful.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This is the kind of player that gets people out of their seats.
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • How many people have uncles like that?
    — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some people must wear their headset for up to eight hours a day.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This is a special group of people.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
  • And, people are even running half marathons in them.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Why do people love, keep and repair clothes?
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • So far, 420 people have done so.
    — ABC News, 4 June 2026

people

2 of 2 verb
  • The upper part of the valley is well peopled, and many of the hills are cultivated high up.
    — Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Farming support groups are not normally peopled with killers.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2019
  • Yeah, this has been sort of an area peopled by a lot of big competitors; Symantec, and others, over the years.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Its stories would be peopled with renowned chefs, artists, and other luminaries.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The movement had been peopled by middle-class, civically minded women for a long, long time.
    — Helaine Olen, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Stettheimer peopled her pictures with willowy figures—women in slinky gowns and men in close-fitting suits.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • The place was bustling Thursday afternoon as peopled browsed through guitars, drums, keyboards and more.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2019
  • Most of the floors had at least a few offices with the lights on, at least some of them peopled with executives trying to figure out what to do now.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • In fact, Santa is mortified to discover his list is peopled with children who've been bad.
    — Ben Raines, AL.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Years of dust cover the vista of train tracks, railroad stations, village stores and tiny figures peopling the miniature landscape.
    — Kathy Routliffe, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Both writers invented a place and, in novel after novel, peopled it with the same characters.
    — Edmund White, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Protests have mostly been peopled by the young, those on college campuses and those who can take a day off to vent without bearing much consequence.
    — Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com, 2 June 2020
  • Broadly speaking, they are peopled by creative types, like the mostly professional writers whose columns these are.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Why can’t people RSVP properly for goodness’ sake?
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
  • And like his namesake from the popular sitcom, this Joey Tribbiani is also a fun-loving guy who people love to be around.
    — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Hypocrisy, not rail spindles or dog poop, is top of the play’s agenda, and to poke around that subject the playwright has peopled his work with a collection of character types.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Today, this part of the South Side seems to be almost entirely peopled by Black families.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
  • Now 30, Jessica recently spoke to People about what adult life is like for the most famous baby in the world.
    — Diana Bruk, Good Housekeeping, 8 Mar. 2017
  • But his novels, which are peopled with both emperors and peasants, encompass an explosive range of sensation and emotion.
    — Jacqueline Carey, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2016
  • The story is set in Ohio after the Civil War, peopled by characters who fled slavery but remain haunted by it.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The Master is the greatest of them all, a movie peopled by characters who are at once intensely human and also the stuff of otherworldly fables.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Sokh, for instance, although part of Uzbekistan and encircled by Kyrgyzstan, is peopled mostly by Tajiks.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Cody is able to hold an audience’s interest simply by creating a situation and peopling it with a handful of vivid and appealing characters.
    — Mick Lasalle, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • These stories are funny and moving and peopled by Southern characters grappling with privilege, tradition, and stasis.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 29 June 2018
  • Diamandis’s network, known to its constituents as the Peterverse, is largely peopled by slim, graying, well-off men who finger their Oura rings like horcruxes.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Boston is a small town, a collection of neighborhoods, peopled by those of different colors and ethnicities and possibilities.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Throughout Humphreys County and Hickman County, peopled gathered with their churches for support and comfort in the days after the tragedy.
    — Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The paradox of this quartet of movies up for the new casting Oscar, all boldly peopled with nonprofessionals, is that this very practice has become professionalized.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Within an entertaining but flawed script, the show is peopled with excessive and usually pointless plotlines and characters that distract from the musical's central focus.
    — NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
  • With deadpan humor and more than a little profanity, Williams introduces us to the cast of characters that peopled her itinerant childhood in Atlanta.
    — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2017

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