How to Use habitable in a Sentence

habitable

adjective

• The house is not habitable.
• The car struck one unit of the townhouse, and only that unit is not habitable, Roche said.
  — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• One of the exoplanets is Earth-sized and lies in the habitable zone of its star.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
• The rent is just $500, but keeping the place habitable requires a kooky, Sisyphean chore.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
• The city is asking the court to order the owners to make the property safe and habitable.
  — Greg Garrison | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2023
• But Mars was too small to have a real shot at staying habitable in the long run.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2020
• Cleanup defined the first phase as the couple set about making the place habitable again.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Egypt and Bangladesh could lose almost one-fifth of their habitable land.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
• Only about half of it is habitable, but hundreds of feet of shore have been lost in past decades.
  — Luis Andres Henao, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Now a new study finds that a habitable world may indeed need just the right amount of these radionuclides.
  — Marcus Woo, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
• Rising seas will also push their ecosystem farther up the beach and to the edges of their habitable zone.
  — Jules Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• In fact, most planets that stayed habitable at least once, did so fewer than ten times out of 100.
  — Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2021
• Both planets circle a red dwarf star, and one, known as LP 890-9c, might even be habitable.
  — CBS News, 8 May 2024
• The problem is, the planet closely hugs its parent star, a red dwarf, and lies well outside the habitable zone.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
• The habitable zone is an area around a star where liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet and life may be able to emerge and thrive.
  — Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• In New York City, the rental vacancy rate, which is the share of habitable unoccupied units, has dropped to a record low 1.4%.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• In such a grim future scenario, where will be as safe and habitable as today?
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2021
• Now the size of a US football field, the station has a habitable volume equivalent to a six-bedroom house.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
• If the home is only partially damaged, but the rest is still habitable, the rent will be reduced.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• This distance is referred to by astronomers as the habitable zone.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
• Some are strictly empirical, like the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way and the fraction of those stars with habitable planets.
  — Dennis Overbye, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• The star hosts at least seven planets, four of them being habitable.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for evidence that the world could be habitable.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
• Police said the habitable and visible part of the house where the party was being held was on the second floor and out of the officer’s view.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2022
• However, that planet is much closer to its star and is outside of the habitable zone.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2023
• During the year’s highest tides, water washes over parts of the habitable land.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2020
• Six pipe breaks in December left rivers tainted, streets full of sludge, and even some homes barely habitable from the smell alone.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2020
• The Earth currently sits roughly in the middle of the Sun’s habitable zone, with Venus just on the inner edge and Mars almost outside of it.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• This system is made up of seven rocky, roughly Earth-sized planets that are fairly close together, some of which are in the star’s habitable zone.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
• The telescope had been used to track asteroids on a path to Earth, conduct research that led to a Nobel Prize and determine whether a planet was potentially habitable.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024