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
• As the book, progresses, the fossil will come to inhabit Robbie.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Azerbaijan wanted the land—without the people who inhabit the land.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Rowlands served as his muse, and without such a force to inhabit her roles, Cassavetes’ oeuvre would not have had the seismic influence on the course of screen acting.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
• The opportunity to see people truly inhabit the space and live as their full selves is an incredible privilege.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Rather, the blue-skinned Na’vi people, who inhabit the planet Pandora in Cameron’s universe, have four digits per hand.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2022
• Celebrity conductors who profess to inhabit several cities at once are a dubious fixture of modern musical life.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• That would be center Robert Williams, whose wingspan and 6-10 frame routinely inhabit the nightmares of would-be shooters.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• That reality has put a new focus on prison nonprofits that focus on the humanity in the individuals who inhabit them.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2023
• Yet in the places that manatees inhabit today, many populations are seriously threatened.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Recognizing how animals inhabit our cities is the first step toward reducing the harm these spaces create for animals, like the risk that architectural glass poses to birds.
  — Richard Fadok, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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 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
• In Homer’s Odyssey, the nearby waters were inhabited by the Sirens, who beckoned sailors to their deaths.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• Richard Gere plays the present-day Leonard, while Elordi inhabits the character’s younger self.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 May 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
• These are just a few of the characters that inhabit The Late Americans.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024