How to Use population explosion in a Sentence

population explosion

noun
  • There has been a huge population explosion in the past few millennia.
    — William Poundstone, Vox, 5 July 2019
  • There also tend to be population explosions every few years.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • People worry what the population explosion will mean will mean for the already low wages many Bangladeshis here count on.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Some have barely made an impact and have died out, while others have found the right conditions for a population explosion.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • This type of population explosion is typical for the entire area.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Their numbers vary from year to year, with population explosions occurring every few years, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 July 2024
  • Their numbers vary from year to year, with population explosions occurring every few years, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The loss of so many led to a population explosion of sea urchins — the prickly species that sea stars commonly eat — along the West Coast over the past decade.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Despite all the challenges of making a home here, the island has seen something of a recent population explosion, at least in percentage terms.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • New housing starts are at a 12-year high and cranes dot the skyline as developers seek to meet the demands of the city’s population explosion.
    — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The East Asian population explosion helped produce large economies and strong militaries.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2024
  • Our precious national park is being drained due to housing construction and the population explosion.
    — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • But as growth soars in the major metro areas, spillover from the population explosion has led to a development boon in the Hill Country.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But Mayorquin, who grew up in Seattle, sees a silver lining amid the city’s recent population explosion.
    — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • De Wit pushes back on the boaters' theory that the manatee population explosion is to blame for eating themselves out of habitat and home.
    — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
  • Though snakes are challenged by cold weather, neither cold snaps nor millions of dollars in removal efforts have stopped their population explosion and range expansion.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • That growth has been fueled by a population explosion that has seen Meridian nearly triple in size since 2000.
    — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The policy was intended to curb China's population explosion but led to acts of cruelty.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 1 July 2021
  • But more than a century of largely unchecked reproduction has led to a population explosion well beyond what the land and residents can tolerate.
    — Maggie Shannon Jill Cowan, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • In a microbiology lab, that's a sure-fire sign that the bacteria in a flask have experienced a population explosion.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2012
  • Given the state’s population explosion, this is a classic growth story in the regulated utility business in and of itself.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Scores of fallow fields and a resurgence of the hare and wild pig population have been attributed to the Hyalomma population explosion in the region (d).
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2011
  • As a population explosion is poised to happen around the equator, where the effects of climate change will be harshest, a protein that grows in extreme environments could be critical.
    — Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Their absence disrupted predator-and-prey relationships throughout the nation and resulted in a population explosion of deer and elk.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In few places is that tension more evident than along Colorado’s Front Range, where a fracking boom is colliding with a population explosion.
    — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Global fertility has plunged since the population explosion in the 1960s.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Both also acknowledged that will pose major challenges, especially in light of Herriman’s population explosion and the problems that have come with it.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The Roman Catholic Church is responsible for the population explosion.
    — Joel E Cohen, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Hamsters ate the crops around their burrows and sometimes destroyed swaths of farmland during population explosions, when as many as 2,000 crowded into a single hectare.
    — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • People of color fueled the state’s population explosion since 2010, with much of the growth concentrated in cities and suburbs, census data show.
    — Sami Sparber, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021

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