Most of these people looked very human indeed, though quite a range of types not unusual for a tavern in a spacelane, in a populated sector with civilized pockets.

(Vaanye could not possibly have foreseen that the explosion would not only transport Acorna out of danger but would bring her to another populated sector of the galaxy . . . and into the hands of these good Linyaari who raised her as one of their own.)

Anyway, it says here that the pod ship's crew encountered the creature near the rim of the galaxy and destroyed themselves to keep it from reaching populated sectors.

However, oftentimes the word "barrio" is also (mistakingly) used in Puerto Rico in an unofficial manner to represent a populated sector within a barrio, and in this latter case the name of the sector can be-and most often is-different from the official barrio where it is located.

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

The sector of El Tuque is considered Puerto Rico's largest populated sector.

The stars in the distance were the yellow and pink stars of civilization, orbited by planets bubbling with progress, the most populated sector of the settled galaxy.