How to Use underpopulated in a Sentence

underpopulated

adjective
  • Soon, you’re dumped on an underpopulated tropical paradise to start afresh and lead the fight.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But then there come scenes that feel rushed, undernourished, and underpopulated.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2024
  • Here are the top three most overcrowded and underpopulated schools, according to the data.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
  • To be sure, there was no place near Germany that was uninhabited or even underpopulated.
    — Timothy Snyder, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Here are more suggestions for shows to check out as this underpopulated fall TV season gets underway.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
  • That results in votes cast in underpopulated districts carrying more weight than the votes cast in overpopulated districts.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2021
  • For the past year, downtown has been depressingly underpopulated.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • Ten Years Taiwan kicks off on Lanyu, a small, windswept and underpopulated island off the eastern coast of Taiwan.
    — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2018
  • In some cities, efforts to close underpopulated schools have become major political issues.
    — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Some have exploded inside Russian guns, and many of the rest have fallen harmlessly in underpopulated areas.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Restaurants, where reservations are harder to come by than scoring a table at Polo Bar, were underpopulated.
    — William Earl, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Many of us have been in funeral homes like Sebrell’s and have attended memorials of various sizes—the wakes that teem with mourners, the calling hours that feel underpopulated.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Whitetail herds overpopulated with does and underpopulated with mature bucks.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Midtown is still eerily underpopulated, especially at night, when Under the Volcano is open.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The Japanese government already offers incentives for migrating to underpopulated areas, but the new sum is three times the current one.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Traces of conservatism remain, most visibly in the (oddly underpopulated) newsroom’s Barbie-pink walls.
    — Mike McCahill, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
  • In recent years, Huawei surveillance cameras made to track cars and people have also gone up in the country’s biggest cities and in the underpopulated capital Naypyidaw.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • For all the recent growth in neighborhoods like Dumbo and Williamsburg, large pockets of the city remain underpopulated and underdeveloped.
    — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
  • If your team lives in places underpopulated with cultural attractions, choose a destination that offers a breadth of cultural activities to keep everyone engaged.
    — Tracey Sawyer, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The district is in the process of redrawing school boundary lines to add more students to underpopulated schools, reduce overcrowding at others and address a declining enrollment expected in coming years.
    — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Occupancy in downtown’s residential buildings has held steady and even grown as new units came to market, but the big office towers built to serve white-collar businesses have remained stubbornly underpopulated.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Still, the Financial District is underpopulated on Mondays and Fridays.
    — Anissa Gardizy, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • But elsewhere in Miranda’s shrinking world, with its De Chirico shadows in underpopulated streets, Thoman conjures beauty and shudders in equal measure.
    — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Those estimates reject the myth of an underdeveloped, underpopulated African continent that lagged behind the development of the West.
    — Lynsey Chutel, Quartz Africa, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Most businesses were built around cyclical governmental functions, such as the management of public land in the vast but underpopulated state, as well as housing, feeding and entertaining the legislators and other officials.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The touch of underpopulated unreality has an unexpected emotional pull.
    — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
  • Algorithms are already used to detect vandalism and identify underpopulated articles.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Two decades ago, Downtown Brooklyn was well connected but underpopulated, a combination that drew armies of fresh college graduates, quintupling the population.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
  • And, of course, there’s also Virbela and its kin of strange, underpopulated thingies snatched right out of a 2005 iteration of Internet Explorer.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Attending an underpopulated high school can be demoralizing for students and lead to limited course offerings and unequal resources compared with neighboring schools, board member Jolene Mosley said.
    — Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022

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