What is "populated"

Usage examples of "populated".

As the newest, and least populated, of the colonies, Iota Aurigae relied on Damia's weekly reconnaissance.

Helva recalled that the plague had struck a heavily populated area and swept with terrific violence throughout the entire planet in a matter of days, its onslaught so fierce and its toll so great that medical personnel often collapsed over the sick they tended.

These differences stemmed ultimately from Eurasia's much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production.

One prong of it became the Polynesians, who populated the most remote islands of the Pacific and were the greatest seafarers among Neolithic peoples.

The Three had left their perch above the sled, but the sky was well populated by the graceful creatures, soaring on thermal updrafts or gliding in to land on their cave ledges during the respite from squall and rain.

Glancing round to identify what and where the diverse noises were coming from, he saw Humans and 'Dinis everywhere, putting up sections of buildings, roofing, dashing from one of the many open large drones for supplies, so that the place appeared totally populated instead of the most recent colony world.

The control tower was unable to contain the destruction within the grappling field, and soon parts of the shuttle were scattered over several kilometers of the Port Authority and the heavily populated business district.

Several planets had more than a fair share, but they were heavily populated worlds.

And it has taken you all this time to come to the islands which you yourself told me were populated by a dissident group.

Five kinds of whales populated the ocean: orcas, humpbacks, grays, rights, and the small so-called pilot whales, as well as dolphins, otters, seals, walruses, and all of the fish and plant life necessary to support them.

Since such facilities no longer had to be dug, it became a punishment chore to do the late evening dumps, far enough from the rapidly expanding community to reduce the hazard of night-crawler infestation to the populated areas.

Avril wished to go to the system nearest them, system that, though uninhabited, was closer to the populated sector of space.

And F'lar, fighting an inward revulsion strong that he was sure he'd vomit, turned back the nearest hummock, smoking with Thread penetration, Grubs feverishly active, populated the concourse of the roots.

A few folk were awake, preparing to return home, but most of the Gather area was populated by those sleeping off the night's excesses.

First, Europeans have for thousands of years been living in densely populated societies with central governments, police, and judiciaries.