inhabitant
noun
in·hab·i·tant
in-ˈha-bə-tənt 
: one that occupies a particular place regularly, routinely, or for a period of time
inhabitants of large cities
the tapeworm is an inhabitant of the intestine
Examples of inhabitant in a Sentence
the inhabitants of the town don't like the tourists
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While this eternal respiration is impossible to fathom, shrinking the idea down to simply the inhabitants of the boarding house works for me.
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Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
Scientists have found a skull with Neandertal characteristics farther south in England, but the inhabitants of the Barnham site may have instead been Homo heidelbergensis, a second early hominin species.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
Spanish colonialism is the origin of the link between their inhabitants, who, even then, migrated across the ninety miles of sea separating their lands.
—Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
Other recent explorations of Pompeii’s people and architecture also revealed that inhabitants returned to the ruins a few decades after the disaster in in AD 79.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
Scientists have found a skull with Neandertal characteristics farther south in England, but the inhabitants of the Barnham site may have instead been Homo heidelbergensis, a second early hominin species.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
Spanish colonialism is the origin of the link between their inhabitants, who, even then, migrated across the ninety miles of sea separating their lands.
—Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
Other recent explorations of Pompeii’s people and architecture also revealed that inhabitants returned to the ruins a few decades after the disaster in in AD 79.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inhabitant
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“Inhabitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inhabitant. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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