depopulate

How To Use depopulate In A Sentence

• In 2002 alone, 100 animals in 34 herds were diagnosed as having Johne's disease, with one entire herd being depopulated.
• The valleys have not lost their character but agricultural and industrial changes have depopulated some areas and opened others to an influx of lowlanders seeking holiday and retirement homes.
• If we depopulate Alaska we could save ol'grizz and some salmon and all kinds of critters. Grizzly Plan Could Deny Hunter Access
• Depopulated and abandoned, the nineteenth-century asylums are rapidly decaying and disappearing. The Times Literary Supplement
• Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of country near Cuzco History of the Incas
• It ruins cities, depopulates fields, condemns men to idleness and want, and the only remedy it knows for the evils which it brings upon man is to shorten the miseries of its victims by giving pestilence and famine the most ample commission to destroy their lives. Hannibal Makers of History
• It especially applies to those areas which have been depopulated since famine times.
• While the narrator clearly describes a room in the throes of chaos brought on by an influx of wounded soldiers, she also curiously depopulates the room of individual men.
• The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.
• With the decline of the Roman empire, barbarian attacks impoverished and depopulated the frontier provinces, and laid a burden of defense on the empire which overstrained the administrative machinery and its economic resources.