Thesaurus results for INHABIT

inhabit

verb

as in to occupy

to be in a place for a period of time We need to protect the forests and also the wildlife that inhabits them. The people who inhabit the island take great pride in their art.

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of inhabit Because the dialogue is perhaps a little too lean, we’re left to infer some of the character construction through the world these players inhabit. —

Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026 At the point of impact, where buildings shatter and flesh is shredded, the war inhabits the material world of awful human consequences. —

Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 Mar. 2026 Her Tribeca apartment made the cover of our latest issue, a five-floor former milk factory most recently inhabited by renowned French architect Thierry Despont. —

Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026 Before the expedition, only 14 animal species were known to inhabit the area’s cold seeps — places on the ocean floor where gases and fluids leak from below the seafloor. —

Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for inhabit

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhabit

Verb

But there is still plenty of room for improvement at the nickel position, currently occupied by Chau Smith-Wade, and the rest of the depth chart.

— Mike Kaye March 24, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2026
Politics consequently occupies much of the space for leftists that is usually taken up by family, religion, career and community for conservatives.

— Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026