How to Use inhabitant in a Sentence

inhabitant

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The village's last inhabitant, says Di Ciacca, was a distant great aunt who passed away in 1969.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 June 2022
• Of course, the question hanging over all of 65 is whether the inhabitants of the Cretaceous world would chase down a human morsel just for the novelty of it.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• Some change in decor and furnishings is expected as staff ready the White House for a new inhabitant.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
• Amid the gradual downshift from full-scale war in some parts of Gaza, the fate of the enclave and its 2.1 million inhabitants remains far from clear.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Down on the coast, the inhabitants of Shëngjin worry that frequent arrivals of migrants in the small harbor will damage tourism.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• This was the second time in less than two years that the city had relocated inhabitants of the encampment.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the trailer, Barbie Land is a Garden of Eden: a paradise whose inhabitants live in a state of innocence and don’t know shame or death.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 July 2023
• Its name comes from the Stallings Culture and its inhabitants known for the oldest pottery in North America.
  — Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 6 July 2024
• The inhabitants of the region themselves are not clamoring for stronger ties.
  — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024
• But when season 2 launches next month on Amazon Prime Video, viewers will also get to see some fan-favorite inhabitants of Tolkien’s fantasy world.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 July 2024
• Nearly 200 years ago, when the government forced the the original inhabitants of northern Wisconsin, the Ojibwe, onto reservations, tribal leaders chose to move to lands that would best sustain wild rice.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024