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
  • Say your body is only flesh and not a house of habitable organs.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • High volumes of food and medicine alone will not make Gaza habitable again.
    — Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In such a grim future scenario, where will be as safe and habitable as today?
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2021
  • But Mars was too small to have a real shot at staying habitable in the long run.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2020
  • All seven could be considered in the broad habitable zone of their star.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • The vehicles and the garage were destroyed and the home is not habitable.
    — Staff Report, Elgin Courier-News, 31 July 2017
  • Cleanup defined the first phase as the couple set about making the place habitable again.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Still, with a total that huge, even a small fraction can yield a lot of habitable planets.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2025
  • At least three planets in that system are within the habitable zone.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • And those factors provide hints as to whether the planets are habitable.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 July 2019
  • The star hosts at least seven planets, four of them being habitable.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • Picture a world with a habitable moon, tidally locked to its planet.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 June 2026
  • Homes were mauled, and the island’s main clinic lost chunks of its roof and is barely habitable.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The car struck one unit of the townhouse, and only that unit is not habitable, Roche said.
    — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This distance is referred to by astronomers as the habitable zone.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
  • One of the exoplanets is Earth-sized and lies in the habitable zone of its star.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The rest of the townhome remains habitable.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • After all, there are plenty of habitable planets out there.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The design also shows where planets lie in the habitable zone around the planet.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
  • No one was inside during the fire, the release noted, and the home was deemed habitable.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • The rabbis' guidance then was to follow the time of the closest habitable city.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The habitable zone is a simple and powerful idea, and for good reason.
    — Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Scientists would focus on habitable zones but shy away from the life question.
    — Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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