How to Use habitable in a Sentence

habitable

adjective

• The house is not habitable.
• Still, the basement is far more habitable than the rest of the house.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 15 May 2018
• That places it squarely in a band around the sun referred to as the habitable zone, or the Goldilocks Zone.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The team’s long-term goal is to power a habitable lunar colony by 2040.
  — Aki Ito, Bloomberg.com, 25 Apr. 2019
• 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
• These are between half and two times larger than the Earth within the habitable zones of their host stars.
  — Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2020
• 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
• The planet, Pax, is habitable, but the first pods crash down, leaving the colonists at the mercy of the weather — as well as its sentient plants.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 29 Dec. 2018
• The design also shows where planets lie in the habitable zone around the planet.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
• 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 overriding law is that the landlord has a duty to keep the unit in a fit and habitable condition.
  — Rachel Dissell, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
• 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
• And those factors provide hints as to whether the planets are habitable.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 July 2019
• All seven could be considered in the broad habitable zone of their star.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• The good news for us is that scientists think the world will be habitable for at least a few hundred million more years.
  — Abigail Higgins, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Malta is the largest, and Gozo and Comino are habitable.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
• Together, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.
  — Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025