How to Use cohabit in a Sentence

cohabit

verb
  • They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.
  • Yes, his choice to cohabit with you could ultimately make a divorce tougher for him.
    — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Yes – his choice to cohabit with you could ultimately make a divorce tougher for him.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Yes — his choice to cohabit with you could ultimately make a divorce tougher for him.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Each of those gets a gallery where very different works by very different artists cohabit.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Bald eagles are no longer hunted and have adapted to cohabit with humans.
    — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • During the day, readers and junkies cohabit in this neutral, hospitable land.
    — Daniel Saldaña París, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
  • While not working, these men live off their savings or the income of their spouse or cohabiting partner.
    — N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • The result of all of this is that many people who cohabit don’t have binding legal agreements between them.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But Tobias and colleagues suspected that species that cohabit tend to be older than those that live apart.
    — Emily Singer, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2014
  • But Tobias and colleagues suspected that species that cohabit tend to be older than those that live apart.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2014
  • Sometimes, cohabiting cats need a period time to get used to one another.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Nearly 70% of men who are married or cohabiting make more money than their partner.
    — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In recent years the number of cohabiting unmarried couples has risen sharply.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
  • The complex and multifaceted tale of love revolves around a woman, husband and lover who try to cohabit under the same roof.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • No alcohol is served onboard and as a mixed unmarried couple we are forbidden to cohabit.
    — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Research strongly suggests that humans who cohabit with pets — especially dogs and cats — live longer.
    — Denise Davidson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • How serious can the crisis be if cookware and boxers cohabit so cozily with the apocalypse?
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But because the platform was dominated by a single cohabiting clique, the company had nowhere to turn.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Unpartnered adults often have worse social and financial outcomes than those who are married or cohabiting.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The camp is also designated as being for cohabiting couples with children.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • How’s your cohabiting life, the rest of your emotional relationship, and everyone’s health?
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The statistics concerning the risk to children when a parent cohabits with a nonrelative are shocking.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • Now, there is close to a decade in between then and when most adults get married now, leaving individuals to navigate other cohabiting options.
    — Jennifer Calfas, Time, 24 May 2018
  • But transferring life partners (trading the bulk of your primary attention away from your cohabiting bestie to the men in your lives) does not mean that you are headed to a bestie divorce.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This tough economy has compelled divorcing couples to continue to cohabit.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
  • The two families, between whom distrust and paranoia mounts, are forced to cohabit as society seemingly and eerily unravels around them.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The Pew data show, for instance, that the chief reason cohabiting partners offer for not being married is a lack of financial readiness.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The two families cohabit warily until the spectre of infection causes alarm.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • The survey’s respondents, 57% of whom were married and 9% of whom were cohabiting, had notably different levels of trust in their partners.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 Nov. 2019

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