How to Use populace in a Sentence

populace

noun
  • The populace has suffered greatly.
  • This does not win the hearts and minds of the populace.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
  • And the attire at the creek reflects the city’s populace.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • The game would finish 3-2, and thus mark the start of the so-called '52 years of hurt' for the English populace.
    — SI.com, 14 June 2018
  • What effect did this have on the populace, on the country as a whole?
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The campaign’s main target is the two-thirds of the Saudi populace who are under the age of 35.
    — Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Not with more than half of the populace feeling that these Olympics should be called off even now.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • Nope, the suits want to take over the populace’s minds, by force if necessary.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Some of the coup leaders are popular and backed by the populace.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • Latinos comprise about 6% of the populace and 3% of the electorate.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2020
  • That the arrogant Fleischman doesn’t take to the place – even as the town populace (or most of it) takes to him – is the stuff of which TV shows are made.
    — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
  • But the real marvel to me is the very process of how a vaccine travels from the minds of scientists to the arms of the populace.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • For the eighth year in a row, Finland takes first place as the home of the planet’s happiest populace.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • For the greater populace, flying back to the Moon might not sound exciting.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Apr. 2022
  • To the wider populace, the notion sounds lax; prison isn’t a vacation.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 22 Aug. 2018
  • So why are two of the state’s most populace counties ranked so high in venomous snake bites?
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And the American populace doesn’t seem to like this change from many decades of, well, trickle-down.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 July 2023
  • That doesn’t point to a populace that no longer enjoys shopping outside of the home.
    — Matt Rubel, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And while Latinos make up more than a third of the populace in those counties, only three are judges, all of them on the felony bench.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 19 July 2020
  • The old establishment hadn’t done well by the rest of the populace or the economy.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
  • Those who study the culture have heard grumbling among the populace about whether the sacrifice is worth it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • It’s not the East or West Coast, where the populace is, that everybody’s talking about.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The story is: Unseen mysteries have kept the populace in a state of fear.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • For much of the populace, talk of death can be morbid, grim or unsettling.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2022
  • No one can say for sure how this is going to affect the populace on a near-term and long-term basis.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • No one can say for sure how this is going to affect the populace on a near-term and long-term basis.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Shots are fired and tires are burned, sending plumes of black smoke above an already jumpy populace.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2021
  • No longer just an outsider Greek chorus, the trio has became the populace.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Sovereignty is a dusty, antiquated term that harkens back to an age when kings and emperors ruled with absolute power over a populace that had no rights.
    — Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s obsessive policing of who’s the sucker has given him political clout with a populace trained to be vigilant to the prospect of being scammed—even by the least plausible fraudsters.
    — Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025

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