How to Use populace in a Sentence

populace

noun
  • The populace has suffered greatly.
  • In many of those cities, the populace can’t get enough training camp news.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
  • What effect did this have on the populace, on the country as a whole?
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In Roswell, the populace had been cashing in on the alien craze for some time.
    — Donovan Webster, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
  • So why are two of the state’s most populace counties ranked so high in venomous snake bites?
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Nope, the suits want to take over the populace’s minds, by force if necessary.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Not with more than half of the populace feeling that these Olympics should be called off even now.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • Walk our entire populace there and have the tools to be able to accomplish that.
    — Nathalie Marie Palacios, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • Your worst case scenario is here, and guns and a heavily armed populace did not stop it.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Nov. 2018
  • His brigade is among those that have been deployed in a city to subdue an angry populace by force.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
  • For much of the populace, talk of death can be morbid, grim or unsettling.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2022
  • That doesn’t point to a populace that no longer enjoys shopping outside of the home.
    — Matt Rubel, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Some of the coup leaders are popular and backed by the populace.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • When a witch places a curse on his town, zombies rise from the dead and terrorize the populace.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 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
  • 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, 29 Apr. 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, 5 Jan. 2025
  • To the wider populace, the notion sounds lax; prison isn’t a vacation.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Our populace is broadly wealthy.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Not until the populace can return in peace to visit them will the task be complete.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Yet politicians push their preferences on the populace and insist that a nudge is not a shove.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This wretched regime is doomed to be overthrown by the risen populace and rebellious youth.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The virus has gripped India’s populace with a severity not seen in its first wave.
    — Angus Whitley, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Those who study the culture have heard grumbling among the populace about whether the sacrifice is worth it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • No longer just an outsider Greek chorus, the trio has became the populace.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The virus had also spread to some members of the general populace.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 July 2020
  • For the greater populace, flying back to the Moon might not sound exciting.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Apr. 2022
  • 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’s not the kind of wound that heals in 10 months--for the populace or Clinton herself.
    — Hillary Kelly, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2017

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