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
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Moreover, the inhabitants of these parts didn’t feel displaced as of the time of the study.
—Olga Mecking, The Atlantic, 11 June 2018
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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
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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
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The inhabitants of Zug, a short drive from Zurich, are as rich as the local Kirschtorte.
—The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
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The place's old inhabitants say that a voice is heard many nights.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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But the rebels, the camp's inhabitants say, were also to blame.
—Tamara Qiblawi, Frederik Pleitgen and Claudia Otto, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018
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Wogan said no inhabitants of the home were present when the fire began.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
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That's two-thirds of the city's inhabitants left without a home.
—Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
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No traces were found of grates, locks, or chains to restrain the room’s inhabitants.
—Reuters, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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Gaza inhabitants were left with just a few hours of power a day.
—Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
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On the other, the village with its tiled roofs and inhabitants.
—Stéphane Jg Girod, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
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The city is the stage, and its inhabitants are their audience!!!
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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But what on earth were the inhabitants of this new nation going to eat?
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 14 Feb. 2025
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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
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On the left, a body whose inhabitant is unhappy with it in some way.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 3 July 2025
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Among the inhabitants was the Leary family, on DeKoven Street.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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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
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These days, firefighters try to care for all of the inhabitants of a home damaged by fire.
—London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2019
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Co-owner Karen Collins has done decades of research tracking down the Black and white inhabitants of the farm since 1849.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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We, you and me, the inhabitants of this wonderful Earth.
—Julia Webster, Time, 19 July 2019
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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
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The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
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An attack like this could empty a city of inhabitants – and for how long?
—Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 July 2018
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During a two-week program in Essex, campers ages 7 to 10 can learn about the ocean’s tides and inhabitants.
—Julia Preszler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
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Danilo, 96 years old, is the last inhabitant of his village in Ourense.
—WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
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Danilo, 96 years old, is the last inhabitant of his village in Ourense.
—WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
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The central bank’s power to tighten or loosen monetary policy has drawn the attention – and at times ire – of Oval Office inhabitants across decades and both parties.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
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