Definition of INHABIT

Examples of inhabit in a Sentence

Several hundred species of birds inhabit the island. This part of the country is inhabited by native tribes. There is a romantic quality that inhabits all her paintings. The novel is inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.

Recent Examples on the Web Scientists traced dozens of unnamed, emerging viruses to caves inhabited by horseshoe bats. — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, "How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease," 7 May 2020 The big promises were empty while tens of thousands were enslaved (and that is without considering the near-destruction of the native peoples who inhabited this fertile continent). — Eric Foner, BostonGlobe.com, "THE SECOND FOUNDING: HOW THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION REMADE THE CONSTITUTION," 4 Oct. 2019 The frightening epidemiological encounter prepared her for a visit later to the hard-to-access Amazon basin region of Peru, and specifically a remote site inhabited by the Machiguenga people. — NBC News, "Isolated indigenous tribes risk extinction from coronavirus, experts say," 22 Apr. 2020 The characters are mostly standard issue, small-town types inhabited by a good supporting cast that includes Jordana Spiro, Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman and Tony Hale. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Like a teenage spin on Todd Haynes, ‘To the Stars’ delivers bittersweet take on the past," 22 Apr. 2020 Created by Katsuya Eguchi for Nintendo, Animal Crossing is a video game series where players get to control their own avatar while living in a village inhabited by talking animals. — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, "What Is Animal Crossing? It's a Virtual Game That's Fun For Both Adults and Kids," 19 Apr. 2020 The distant moon of Pandora is an unspoiled paradise, a Day-Glo mix of floating mountains and dense forests inhabited by lithe aliens that exist in concert with nature. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "22 Movies About the End of the World to Watch Now," 18 Apr. 2020 Black Widow's new home of Nov. 6 used to belong to Eternals, which now goes out on Feb. 12, 2021, a date previously inhabited by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Rings. — Pamela Mcclintock, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Black Widow,' 'Mulan' Land New 2020 Release Dates, 'Jungle Cruise' Delayed a Year," 3 Apr. 2020 The homeland, inhabited by ancestral spirits, was a living being, and the severing of ties with it was more painful than the loss of a family member. — Scientific American, "How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People," 25 Mar. 2020

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