How to Use inhabitant in a Sentence
inhabitant
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Maybe the next inhabitant of the White House will be more up to the task.
— Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2020 -
The extent of the rot, and the dire risks facing the building and its inhabitants, are well known.
— Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023 -
The inhabitant is wearing a ring with the Sic Mundus logo and has the blind man’s cane with the etched phrase.
— Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 28 June 2020 -
That's two-thirds of the city's inhabitants left without a home.
— Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023 -
No traces were found of grates, locks, or chains to restrain the room’s inhabitants.
— Reuters, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023 -
So is the grove’s largest inhabitant, on which the paint has been applied in a smiley face.
— Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2022 -
The home’s only inhabitants now are the small green lizards that dart up and down its gray concrete walls.
— Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024 -
On the other, the village with its tiled roofs and inhabitants.
— Stéphane Jg Girod, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024 -
The City of God lives as earthly inhabitants of the City of Man; thus, our world is imperfect.
— Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020 -
Among the inhabitants was the Leary family, on DeKoven Street.
— Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Its inhabitants mine the kyber crystals used in lightsabers, which have been corrupted by the Sith of the Dark Side.
— Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023 -
Much of the city was, again, destroyed in conflict; its inhabitants formed what is now Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
— Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024 -
The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants.
— Natasha Frost, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023 -
Danilo, 96 years old, is the last inhabitant of his village in Ourense.
— WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022 -
Its inhabitants arrive there by boat, across a sea that washes the past clean.
— Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020 -
What's not to love about Oriental, a town with more than three times as many boats as year-round inhabitants?
— Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Schools-turned-shelters in Derna list the names of their inhabitants on their doors to help people like Abu Bakr.
— Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023 -
The residents of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo are not your usual zoo inhabitants.
— Jaimie Ding and Jae Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024 -
This was one of the main reasons early inhabitants kept many dogs.
— Buckley T. Foster Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024 -
Israel has launched an around-the-clock assault on parts of Gaza since then and sealed its borders to the land that is home to some 2.3 million inhabitants.
— Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The Union forces gathered all the inhabitants who were in town and administered an oath of allegiance to the Union.
— Randy McCrory, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023 -
Today, Barcelona has only 75 square feet of green space per inhabitant, about half that of New York City.
— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024 -
The mural also evokes the transition from a black-and-white world to one in which the world's inhabitants can live together.
— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024 -
The Taino were among the first indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean.
— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2023 -
The village's last inhabitant, says Di Ciacca, was a distant great aunt who passed away in 1969.
— Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 June 2022 -
Of course, the question hanging over all of 65 is whether the inhabitants of the Cretaceous world would chase down a human morsel just for the novelty of it.
— Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Some change in decor and furnishings is expected as staff ready the White House for a new inhabitant.
— Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021 -
Amid the gradual downshift from full-scale war in some parts of Gaza, the fate of the enclave and its 2.1 million inhabitants remains far from clear.
— Claire Parker, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Down on the coast, the inhabitants of Shëngjin worry that frequent arrivals of migrants in the small harbor will damage tourism.
— Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Elk, moose, whitetail and mule deer, as well as mountain lion, black bear and wolf are all inhabitants.
— Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2020
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