How to Use inhabitant in a Sentence

inhabitant

noun

• The inhabitants of Zug, a short drive from Zurich, are as rich as the local Kirschtorte.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• And there is little sign that buildings which have been reconstructed are structurally sound enough to keep inhabitants safe through the next earthquake.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020
• These finches represent some of the islands’ few original inhabitants, and less than half the group’s species have survived successive waves of alien intruders.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
• The first saw Mario and Luigi help the music-loving inhabitants of Twistee Island put on a festive concert.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
• Once inhabitants of the West Coast, coyotes have spread to urban and suburban spots around North America.
  — Hannah Knowles, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
• The Nashville Zoo welcomed two new inhabitants recently when a pair of Komodo dragons hatched.
  — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
• Maybe the next inhabitant of the White House will be more up to the task.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2020
• The extent of the rot, and the dire risks facing the building and its inhabitants, are well known.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• The inhabitant is wearing a ring with the Sic Mundus logo and has the blind man’s cane with the etched phrase.
  — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 28 June 2020
• That's two-thirds of the city's inhabitants left without a home.
  — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
• No traces were found of grates, locks, or chains to restrain the room’s inhabitants.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023
• So is the grove’s largest inhabitant, on which the paint has been applied in a smiley face.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2022
• The home’s only inhabitants now are the small green lizards that dart up and down its gray concrete walls.
  — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• On the other, the village with its tiled roofs and inhabitants.
  — Stéphane Jg Girod, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
• The City of God lives as earthly inhabitants of the City of Man; thus, our world is imperfect.
  — Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
• Among the inhabitants was the Leary family, on DeKoven Street.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Its inhabitants mine the kyber crystals used in lightsabers, which have been corrupted by the Sith of the Dark Side.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
• Much of the city was, again, destroyed in conflict; its inhabitants formed what is now Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
  — Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024
• The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Danilo, 96 years old, is the last inhabitant of his village in Ourense.
  — WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• Its inhabitants arrive there by boat, across a sea that washes the past clean.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• What's not to love about Oriental, a town with more than three times as many boats as year-round inhabitants?
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
• Schools-turned-shelters in Derna list the names of their inhabitants on their doors to help people like Abu Bakr.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• The residents of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo are not your usual zoo inhabitants.
  — Jaimie Ding and Jae Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
• This was one of the main reasons early inhabitants kept many dogs.
  — Buckley T. Foster Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• Israel has launched an around-the-clock assault on parts of Gaza since then and sealed its borders to the land that is home to some 2.3 million inhabitants.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The Union forces gathered all the inhabitants who were in town and administered an oath of allegiance to the Union.
  — Randy McCrory, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
• Today, Barcelona has only 75 square feet of green space per inhabitant, about half that of New York City.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024
• The mural also evokes the transition from a black-and-white world to one in which the world's inhabitants can live together.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024
• The Taino were among the first indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024