How to Use inhabit in a Sentence

inhabit

verb

• This part of the country is inhabited by native tribes.
• Several hundred species of birds inhabit the island.
• The novel is inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.
• There is a romantic quality that inhabits all her paintings.
• That seems like a lot to inhabit with your one small body within the space of a few years.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• Yet part of our job is to gauge, and sometimes even inhabit, the mind of the normie voter.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
• The city of her mind is a very comfortable world to inhabit.
  — Avantika Shankar, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2023
• The landlord that owned the space in Shaw that the group had inhabited for decades wanted them out.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• For the majority of the year, the crabs inhabit forests.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 11 July 2024
• Unlike with a green screen, actors can see the world that they’re meant to inhabit.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Half of the 56 properties are inhabited and no longer owned by the city.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• The Dalios’ lawyer said the apartment is owned and inhabited by Mr. Dalio’s children.
  — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The true mystique is being able to build a world people want to inhabit.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• The power couple worked to restore and re-inhabit the city.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
• The guy whose body was briefly inhabited by Death at the beginning of the play is Emilio (Caleb Eberhardt).
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The film centers around a house, China Court, and the family that inhabits it.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• But close inspection reveals a home that is frayed at the edges, like the couple that inhabits it.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• The most beautiful spaces, for Falconer, are the ones that evolve to fit the needs of the people who inhabit them.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
• In Homer’s Odyssey, the nearby waters were inhabited by the Sirens, who beckoned sailors to their deaths.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• Rather than simply prepare him for the movie, Sale wanted Majors to inhabit the essence of a fighter and taught him how to box.
  — Clover Hope, Men's Health, 11 Oct. 2022
• Richard Gere plays the present-day Leonard, while Elordi inhabits the character’s younger self.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 May 2024
• For Poitier, acting was a site of play, a way to inhabit lives unavailable to him.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2022
• Burning Man is its own world with a deep culture among the burners who inhabit the space each summer.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Take good care of it for us, so that one day, when the pain begins to heal, both Israelis and Palestinians might inhabit that space.
  — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
• Anglers can cast for 86 fish species that inhabit the lake, while divers have scores of historic shipwrecks to explore.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022
• While none of the candidates inhabit the far-right flank of the GOP, none of them are moderates by any stretch of the imagination.
  — Daniel Martinez Hosang, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
• These are just a few of the characters that inhabit The Late Americans.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• The chain of isles was discovered and inhabited 8,000 years ago by the Chonos, who were nomadic canoeists.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2023
• Scherzinger also nails the comedy of a camp diva, inhabiting Norma’s delusion and ego without ever losing sight of her sincerity.
  — Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• In part, the dominance of beef in American cuisine can be traced to settler colonialism, a form of colonization in which settlers claim – and then transform – lands inhabited by Indigenous people.
  — Hannah Cutting-Jones, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024