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The debris fell into the Indian Ocean away from inhabited areas.—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 4 July 2025 This is nature in its rawest form, where impossible scale and a near-impenetrable silence take over.
Fewer than 50 people live in the park (all conducting scientific or military business), and the closest inhabited area is over 400 miles away.—Katherine Alex Beaven, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025 Supporters of both bills contended that increased interactions between humans and predators indicated a need for more legal ways to drive the animals away from inhabited areas.—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 13 May 2025 That means the weather was ripe for fire, and wind gusts of up to 25 miles per hour quickly whipped the fire toward inhabited areas.—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhabited
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