How to Use populous in a Sentence

populous

adjective
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  • The county is the most populous in the state and all of its top seats are up for grabs in 2024.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • As of May 2023, India is the most populous country in the world.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • Sharjah is known as the third-most populous city in the UAE.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Ian came ashore in the populous Lee County, home to the city of Fort Myers.
    — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The nearest big-box store is a 120-mile drive, one-way, from the tribe’s most populous town.
    — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 6 Dec. 2023
  • That set a record for what is now the world’s most populous nation.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The county is the fourth-most populous in the US and is home to Phoenix, the county website said.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 20 July 2024
  • China has been the most populous nation in the world since at least 1750.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 5 July 2023
  • Raised Catholic in the world’s most populous Black nation, I was struck by the irony that this was my first time in a church with Black saints.
    — Essence, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In the case of China, the world’s most populous nation extracted a record amount of coal in the first eight months of 2022.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Evan Halper and Timothy Puko, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • That’s an increase of 5.7%, the highest among the most populous metros and well ahead of the U.S. growth rate of 3.3% over the same period.
    — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For the first time since the mid-18th century, China isn’t the world’s most populous nation.
    — wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Those counties, Richland and Charleston, are the second- and third-most populous counties in the state.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • New listings fell in all 50 of the most populous metros.
    — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Fouts wants to seek a fifth, four-year term as mayor of Michigan's third most populous city.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In the world’s 100 most populous cities, the average daily flight time would be 6 hours.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • Now a hedge against that risk is taking shape in — of all places — the northern outskirts of the most populous city in Arizona.
    — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona, all of the top seats are up for grabs.
    — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024
  • Users could only choose cities within the top 50 most populous cities in the United States.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Buncombe includes the tourist hub of Asheville, the region’s most populous city.
    — Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In raw numbers, the Golden State is not only the most populous state but employs the most workers of any in the nation.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Still, Phoenix gained some ground on the sixth most populous city Philadephia, cementing the Valley's spot as the fifth-largest.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024
  • Then, the foreign aid groups who promised all sorts of help moved on as Ebola spread into more populous towns.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The storm, which hit last week, flooded the Fort Lauderdale area and set off a severe gas shortage in the state’s most populous region.
    — Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • More from California, but that's the most populous state, so that makes sense.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The cuts are expected to boost exports to the world’s most populous country, which is a growing market for the tart red fruit.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The South, already the most populous area of the country, was the fastest-growing and largest-gaining region in the U.S., Census data shows.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Mesa is closing in on Tucson for the title of the second most populous city in Arizona.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • To compare salaries, the report looked at median year-round full-time salaries for male and female workers in the 170 most populous places in the U.S.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Just in Ontario, one of the most populous cities in San Bernardino County, there have been five earthquakes of magnitude 3 or higher over the past month.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024

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