How to Use inhabited in a Sentence

inhabited

adjective
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  • A deputy found the four about an hour and a half later in an inhabited area northeast of the city, Estrada said.
    — Daniel González, USA TODAY, 22 June 2017
  • Second, the image also picks up a key trait that marks Earth as an inhabited planet: the lights of cities at night.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2013
  • Kauai and Niihau, at 5 million years, are the oldest of the inhabited islands.
    — Elizabeth Chang, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • In addition to the three inhabited floors, the eight-bedroom house has a vast attic and a network of cellars.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Chile and Argentina were the only inhabited places where the total eclipse could be seen.
    — Eva Vergara, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • The town of Rachel, Nevada, 27 miles south of Area 51, had been chosen as the de facto venue, given its status as the closest inhabited place.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Castles from the Crusades era, a fortress that hosted the Romans and the Ottomans, and a citadel in one of the oldest inhabited cities on Earth are among the disaster’s rubble.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In Australia, the largest inhabited place that will experience a total eclipse is the small town of Exmouth.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Go ashore on Heimaey, the only inhabited isle in the archipelago, and wander among the white wooden buildings of the single tiny town.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Until Nansen, most explorers had tried to cross from west to east, from the inhabited side of the island to its forbidding Atlantic coast.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 11 July 2019
  • The town of Longyearbyen — the largest inhabited area of Svalbard — has just one grocery store, one post office and one women’s clothing store, where Blomdahl used to work.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The measures are based on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, which had a single host city and sports facilities far from inhabited areas.
    — James Ellingworth, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
  • Life is dictated by the weather and the ferry, which stops at Matinicus, the farthest flung of the inhabited islands, only once a month.
    — Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Derna’s disaster came when floodwaters poured down the hills surrounding the city, burst through two dams, and washed away about a quarter of the inhabited area.
    — Sarah Dadouch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike Grande-Terre, the Basse-Terre landscape is cooler, greener and less inhabited.
    — Elizabeth Field, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The concrete statue of a bull in the center of town marks the coldest temperature ever recorded in any inhabited place on earth.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Janari grew up in the last remaining strip of inhabited rowhouses, along the west side of Cambridge Avenue.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Sheriff’s detectives re-booked him on a separate count of arson to an inhabited structure for the Lemon Grove fire.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Fortunately, no one was injured, and the nearest inhabited area was about 10 km away.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Turks and Caicos Turks and Caicos is made up of two island groups with eight major islands; most people stay on Providenciales, the most inhabited island.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Canadian Forces outpost is the northernmost inhabited place on the planet.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Fueled by dry and windy weather, the wildfire is engulfing the landscape and sending clouds of smoke over inhabited areas, such as Las Vegas.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Once on the islands, there are regular car ferry services between many of the inhabited islands.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Bear attacks are an increasing problem in parts of rural Japan due to a shortage of food in the forests that brings the animals into inhabited areas to forage.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The typical inhabited island is likewise rich in sunshine and warmth and has access to a shallow lagoon, palm trees and maybe a mangrove forest.
    — Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Last week, Alert, Canada, the most inhabited northern region in the world, reached a temperature of 70+ degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2019
  • In our opening installment today, Rodney talks about getting tech news by steamship as a kid (yes, really)—living on the southern fringe of the inhabited world, with nothing on the (very) far side of the water but Antarctica.
    — Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 20 June 2018
  • Beyond the urban and inhabited areas lies the vast Syrian Desert, also known as Badiyat al-Sham, famous for its caves and rugged mountains.
    — Bassem Mroue, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2017
  • If in terms of narrative there’s not much new here, there is a freshness and an inhabited vibrancy that makes this painful coming of age story feel exactly its own.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Image: Syfy The Expanse kicked off its third season last month on Syfy, continuing the story of the crew of a spaceship in an inhabited solar system that’s set centuries in the future.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 4 May 2018

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