How to Use inhabitant in a Sentence

inhabitant

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This was the second time in less than two years that the city had relocated inhabitants of the encampment.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the trailer, Barbie Land is a Garden of Eden: a paradise whose inhabitants live in a state of innocence and don’t know shame or death.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 July 2023
• One of the scariest experiences of her life was seeing the city of a million and a half inhabitants reduced to about four hundred thousand, in the spring of 2022.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• The viewer is submerged in the sensation of being beneath the surface where the secrets of the inhabitants’ lives are revealed.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• Kentucky state flag The frontiersman and statesman in the seal represent the people of Kentucky: country and city inhabitants of 1792, when the state was joined the Union.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• The film focuses on the spiritual lives of the inhabitants of South Africa’s Great Karoo desert.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• All of the building’s nine floors had partly collapsed, crushing some of its inhabitants.
  — Constant Méheut Oksana Parafeniuk, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Today, descendants of those original inhabitants can call a piece of the mesa their own once again.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• This city’s inhabitants embraced computers, the Internet and cellphones before the rest of the world caught on.
  — Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2023
• What was the mysterious event that caused the building’s inhabitants to abandon it?
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• The full coverage fly will protect all inhabitants from rain while the double doors on either side provide great airflow when the fly is open.
  — Lindsey Lapointe, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• With its stunning scenery and friendly inhabitants, Galway is not to be missed, either.
  — Elizabeth Preske, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024