How to Use habitation in a Sentence

habitation

noun

• The house was not fit for human habitation.
• Scott says Lane lived on a farm that wasn’t fit for habitation.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The habitation part of the platform is scheduled to launch one year later, in 2023.
  — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2018
• The team has brought in the hotel chain Hilton to design the habitation space, and the sleeping area would be more spacious than on the ISS.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• The Gravettians were the ones who opened up the tundra to human habitation, and were hunters of mega-fauna.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
• If Earth is still amenable to human habitation, my guess is no.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
• Dreams travel worstward, during a fever, and one job of the movies is to give our dreams, good or bad, a local habitation and a name.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 May 2020
• The inspection is required to deem the house safe for habitation.
  — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2018
• Those signs of habitation had been left by someone else.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 6 July 2017
• About 34 percent of those lived in a place not meant for human habitation.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 12 Mar. 2018
• The man will likely be charged with burglary of habitation.
  — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• The young man speaks of his unease at the idea of being in such a city, deserted by any form of life or habitation.
  — Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
• The rest of the islands are set aside for agriculture and tourism, with no human habitation on them at all.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 29 June 2021
• For the most part, the area is empty, an arid wilderness of ungoverned space devoid of habitation.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2017
• As with many compact and mid-size crossovers with third-row seats, the Journey’s are useless for adult habitation.
  — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2017
• For the shocking absence of any sound, or sight of human habitation.
  — Pico Iyer, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• Some concerns about the Maasai presence are linked to the growing human habitation of the NCA.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Today, the view from the hillside of Beinn Rosail shows no sign of human habitation.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
• The apartment was now too cold for habitation, and the family spent the night with others in the basement of a jewelry shop.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• But overall, there are no signs of long-term habitation inside the structure.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Mar. 2020
• Caves are one of our oldest known human habitations, and there’s good reason for it.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• But Malé is already pressed up hard against the limits of human habitation.
  — Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• Then there are the problems of building a habitation and doing all the recycling.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
• The habitation and airlock capabilities will allow crew there to live and work in deep space for 30 to 60 days at a time, the post said.
  — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• Guo pleaded guilty to burglary of a habitation a year later.
  — Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2019
• This week, tents could be seen next to the railroad tracks, with other signs of habitation seen nearby in a sparse tangle of bushes and scrubs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• Though the light station is now the only visible sign of human habitation, the land was home to the Quiroste people for thousands of years.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• He was charged in 2018 with burglary of a habitation with intent to commit a felony and is awaiting trial.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2020
• In the years since Robinson wrote his Mars novels, for instance, the prospects for human habitation on that planet have changed.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The discovery furthers our understanding of the resources available on the moon, which could be vital to future space missions and even lunar habitations.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024