How to Use uninhabited in a Sentence

uninhabited

adjective

• The tiny, uninhabited island is just over a quarter of a mile long and 1/20th of a mile wide.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Aug. 2020
• The uninhabited islands off the coast of China have been the subject of shows of force by both sides.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2018
• China calls the uninhabited islands Diaoyu and Japan refers to them as the Senkakus.
  — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• Six years after the nor’easter struck, the Schmitt home still sits uninhabited.
  — Genna Contino, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024
• Stranger still, the colonies at the site in Brazil appear to be uninhabited, abandoned thousands of years ago.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• And records don’t exist for the many uninhabited locations on Earth, like over the ocean or deep in rain forests.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2021
• Two miles from the plant, the town of Futaba remains uninhabited.
  — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2020
• Even on the uninhabited island, plastic foam, bottles and bags were all over the place.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
• Most of the land was uninhabited, and most of the lakes unfished; the brook trout would never have seen an artificial fly.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Tensions flared again in 1996 over the sovereignty of the uninhabited islet of Imia, or Kardak in Turkish.
  — Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• On uninhabited Big Major Cay, a colony of pigs (and adorable piglets!) takes center stage.
  — Rondel Holder, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
• The uninhabited islets are controlled by Japan but claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu.
  — Aamer Madhani and Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
• The boat was spotted more than 11 miles north of the uninhabited island of Desecheo, which is off Puerto Rico's west coast.
  — CBS News, 13 May 2022
• And remember, the space station could very well crash into the ocean or over an uninhabited area, and the pieces could spread out over hundreds of miles.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
• An uninhabited speck off the coast of Nova Scotia, Sable is home only to a pack of about 550 wild horses.
  — Mark Ellwood, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2021
• The rocky, uninhabited islands are known for their abundance of marine and bird life, as well as a secret beach.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
• So he is sent into an uninhabited place to wander, where no one can see him.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 16 Feb. 2018
• Since the island is uninhabited, the thick, viscous lava that could flow in an eruption would not cause harm.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Why are these young people singing and walking in a circle in what seems to be an uninhabited landscape?
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• But, since most of the planet is either uninhabited or ocean, most are never seen.
  — Matt Milner, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
• And the reef in the picture was part of tiny Nikumaroro Island, in the mostly uninhabited Phoenix Islands.
  — Julie Cohn, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• But money has been in short supply for the places where those uninhabited landscapes mingle with cities and towns.
  — Alex Brown, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• The island is uninhabited apart from a simple beach bistro run by a Greek-Turkish couple, Tsikos and Hurigul.
  — Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
• Gerald was tagged and released in an uninhabited area in Orinda, miles away from the rose garden, Dmytryk said.
  — Joe Bagliere, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
• The ship ran aground, breaking up and stranding its crew on an uninhabited island off the coast of Patagonia.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• But in the uninhabited region where the Northguider ran aground—the Hinlopen Strait, 200 kilometers north of Longyearbyen—there were no city lights, no moon, no northern lights, and clouds masked the stars.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2020
• That said, much of Earth is uninhabited—making it likely that Tiangong-1 will fall in the ocean, or, like Skylab, into a remote area.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• At the time, the land was little more than uninhabited pasture and swamp, according to Reedy Creek's website.
  — Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• Things have, in fact, been going badly for a very long time, as is prone to happen when someone moves to an uninhabited island and attempts to carve out a new world order.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
• The movie, a sci-fi survival story about a robot that’s marooned on an uninhabited island, debuts on Sunday night at Toronto Film Festival and may prompt moviegoers to shed a few tears.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024