[
US
/ˈpipəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈiːpəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈiːpəl/ ]
NOUN
-
members of a family line
are your people still alive?
his people have been farmers for generations -
the body of citizens of a state or country
the Spanish people -
the common people generally
separate the warriors from the mass
power to the people -
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
old people
there were at least 200 people in the audience
VERB
-
fill with people
Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes -
furnish with people
The plains are sparsely populated
How To Use people In A Sentence
- People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online. Times, Sunday Times
- People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted. Obama Policies on Transparency, Openness, and Participation - and NASA - NASA Watch
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
- This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
- Difficulties help to forge people into able folk.
- The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
- A lot of people moaned about the parking problems.
- The acrimony of the dispute has shocked a lot of people.
- People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.