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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The pair got engaged on an uninhabited island in Greece, one of their favorite places to visit since meeting on the Raya dating app in 2018.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• There is a small town on the north side of the island, but the southern half is mountainous, with dense jungle, and completely uninhabited.
  — Daniel Merino, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2023
• The storm surge may have reached 20 feet in a more rural, uninhabited marshy area along the Louisiana coast near landfall, Trucheult said.
  — Ashley White, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
• Open public land abounds in Utah’s largely uninhabited and sun-drenched West Desert.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• On this uninhabited island, a colony of pigs take center stage.
  — Rondel Holder, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021
• Until the late fifties, Cape Coral didn’t exist, except as an uninhabited spit of land called Redfish Point.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• Across the way, on the largely uninhabited island of Therasia, Psychas built what is known as the Hideaway in 2011 out of an old pumice mine that juts directly into the Aegean.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
• As if Cozumel doesn't have enough pristine beachfront, many day trippers to the island like to pop over to the nearby uninhabited Isla Pasion.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
• Scrub Island Scrub Island is small, uninhabited, and steeped in myth.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2023
• About 40 islands dot the gulf, one of which is an uninhabited rocky outcropping called Gavrinis.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• At the time, L’île d’Anges—or Angels’s Island— was a 20-acre chunk of uninhabited and undeveloped rock.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2021
• The archipelago of eight major islands and dozens of small, uninhabited cays comes surrounded by some of the clearest and bluest waters on earth, which lap against the soft-sand shores.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
• Four months later, the boat pinged a location on an uninhabited island in Smøla, near Dyrnes, Norway.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
• The initial plan is to build about 40 houses on the currently uninhabited property in Ouli, but that number could grow.
  — Dara Kerr, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
• There are five uninhabited islands not far from the coast of Loreto, and the beach on Coronado is the most popular destination of the bunch.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024