How to Use cohabit in a Sentence

cohabit

verb

• They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.
• Yes, his choice to cohabit with you could ultimately make a divorce tougher for him.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• Yes — his choice to cohabit with you could ultimately make a divorce tougher for him.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Yes – his choice to cohabit with you could ultimately make a divorce tougher for him.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• While not working, these men live off their savings or the income of their spouse or cohabiting partner.
  — N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• But Tobias and colleagues suspected that species that cohabit tend to be older than those that live apart.
  — Emily Singer, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2014
• But Tobias and colleagues suspected that species that cohabit tend to be older than those that live apart.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2014
• Bald eagles are no longer hunted and have adapted to cohabit with humans.
  — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• Nearly 70% of men who are married or cohabiting make more money than their partner.
  — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
• Dorothy and Anna traveled as a pair to Italy and elsewhere, later co-founded a clinic for disadvantaged children in London, and would cohabit for the rest of their lives.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• In recent years the number of cohabiting unmarried couples has risen sharply.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
• The survey’s respondents, 57% of whom were married and 9% of whom were cohabiting, had notably different levels of trust in their partners.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 Nov. 2019
• The Pew data show, for instance, that the chief reason cohabiting partners offer for not being married is a lack of financial readiness.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Research strongly suggests that humans who cohabit with pets — especially dogs and cats — live longer.
  — Denise Davidson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The statistics concerning the risk to children when a parent cohabits with a nonrelative are shocking.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• For all the martial metaphors that politicians on both sides of the Atlantic like to invoke, humanity is not so much at war with the virus as uneasily, unwillingly cohabiting with it, with nowhere more hospitable to escape to.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 May 2020
• Now, there is close to a decade in between then and when most adults get married now, leaving individuals to navigate other cohabiting options.
  — Jennifer Calfas, Time, 24 May 2018
• How’s your cohabiting life, the rest of your emotional relationship, and everyone’s health?
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• After two years of cohabiting as friends, Mr. Monahan and Ms. Hamel became romantically involved for a year, then broke up.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• Perhaps, these same effects would occur with committed cohabiting partners who stay together for decades (a rare occurrence in the United States).
  — Alan J. Hawkins, National Review, 10 July 2019
• Unpartnered adults often have worse social and financial outcomes than those who are married or cohabiting.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• But is there any harder evidence that this kind of activity is common among married and cohabiting Americans—and causing problems for them?
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• The two families cohabit warily until the spectre of infection causes alarm.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Finance and logistics were also major factors, at least according to a Realtor.com survey released in February, in which 80 percent of cohabiting Gen Z couples cited one or both of those factors.
  — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• Both these food sources would have encouraged wildcats to adapt to living with people; in the lingo of evolutionary biology, natural selection favored those wildcats that were able to cohabit with humans and thereby gain access to the trash and mice.
  — Andrew C. Kitchener, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• A recent survey by HomeAdvisor asked 2,000 cohabiting women and men for their strongest home preferences, a.k.a.
  — Brie Dyas, House Beautiful, 21 Oct. 2016
• Current policy also states the district would not hire the spouse or cohabiting significant other of the superintendent.
  — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2018
• One big difference: Sometimes that means the residents will be cohabiting with other preppers, not just their immediate family.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• This tough economy has compelled divorcing couples to continue to cohabit.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• If Boyfriend and Girlfriend marry instead of cohabiting gifts between them, assuming that the are both US citizens are of no import as the unlimited gift tax marital deduction would obviate any gift tax issues.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024