How To Use Unpeopled In A Sentence

  • He frames his cultural codes as domestic interiors, always unpeopled and usually crammed with possessions, spaces so filled with emptiness, they ache.
  • It might be of the Paradise in which, on the very day of the crucifixion, the penitent thief was to meet the Saviour of mankind; or it might be of that Heaven, yet increate or unpeopled, seen by some in long, distant perspective, shadowed forth in such lines as these: -- The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
  • All of this enacted as if in an existential landscape, against the background of the great unpeopled, inhospitable territory beyond the cities.
  • For the romantic these are the hills of home, scattered with Munros and sufficiently unpeopled to turn a day's ridge-walk into an adventure, an open-air playground with soaring eagles and far-off deer for company.
  • The village is unpeopled, which makes it spooky.
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  • In the world of Myst, the player has no avatar presence and wanders around a seemingly unpeopled landscape - strolling as a tourist venturing into the unknown - creating and storing a mental map of objects and places.
  • Moreover, unpeopled landscape was as difficult for an audience newly exposed to it as abstraction would be later.
  • Amidst all that stuff existing in unpeopled rooms.
  • Aside from a few unpeopled shots of the nondescript, working-class house, most of the images depict visitors touching either side of the glass, creating a palimpsest of earnest prayers.
  • The failure of the harvest again produced famine and unpeopled farms and hamlets.
  • In a complementary work Karimi showed an elegiac video in which the camera meanders through unpeopled caves and along sandy beaches.
  • The oblique suggestion of human presence in the unpeopled images effectively sparks the viewer's imagination and ends up being more poignant.
  • Both are poets of the ordinary, of the inhabited but often unpeopled landscape, sociologists of the visual with a magical realist touch.
  • On one screen a young woman moves though the moonless night and an unpeopled cityscape to meet her lover/friend.
  • Her subject is an unpeopled urban landscape - the buildings, displays, logos and electric signs of New York.
  • The landscapes, as a rule, were depicted as unpeopled, pristine environments.
  • But the last, justice, at least as between the Infinite and the finite, has been so utterly dehumanized, disintegrated, decomposed, and diabolized in passing through the minds of the half-civilized banditti who have peopled and unpeopled the world for some scores of generations, that it has become a mere algebraic x, and has no fixed value whatever as a human conception. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
  • The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.
  • Most of that show consisted of images of these same haunted, unpeopled streets and canals. Times, Sunday Times
  • The village is unpeopled, which makes it spooky.
  • The other is Mortuary, which presents the sanitary walls and gleaming metal surfaces of an unpeopled morgue.
  • She liked what she saw now for being unfinished and unpeopled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus parts of the city - dumps, landfills and junkyards - are both unpeopled and unclaimed, yet perversely organic in the manner in which junk simply accumulates and grows.
  • The paintings themselves depicted unpeopled rooms furnished in generic modernist decor.
  • … The 14 Air Force was pulling away from Kweilin which was waiting, stripped and unpeopled, for the will of the enemy. The Last Empress
  • In placing value on the pristine, the untouched, and the unpeopled, it fails to question the form of the ultimate relationship between humans and nature.
  • For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled : they are in flight, man and beast are gone.
  • We see the packed profusion of exotic narratives give way to the barren emptiness of unpeopled landscapes. Times, Sunday Times
  • I practically drove right onto the beachfront, an unspoiled, unpeopled coastline that seemed to stretch to infinity. Smithsonian Mag
  • The tribes formerly inhabiting this coast have long since been annihilated by continual wars, whose destructive effects have unpeopled this part of the country.
  • That his places are unpeopled, in today's arena of politicized landscape photography, is in itself anachronistic, however abrupt the photographs.
  • The failure of the harvest again produced famine and unpeopled farms and hamlets.
  • Napoleon had drowned: It was an astonishing thing to see the Mississippi rolling between unpeopled shores and straight over the spot where I used to see a good big self-complacent town twenty years ago. Interstate 69
  • But the last, justice, at least as between the Infinite and the finite, has been so utterly dehumanized, disintegrated, decomposed, and diabolized in passing through the minds of the half-civilized banditti who have peopled and unpeopled the world for some scores of generations, that it has become a mere algebraic x, and has no fixed value whatever as Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Australia, with its vast, unpeopled spaces, had always beckoned.
  • We have Russia's practically unpeopled Siberian lands, stretching across seven time zones - or is it eight?
  • He would in a short time have unpeopled the whole island if death had not sheltered 'em from his cruelties.

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