How to Use habitation in a Sentence

habitation

noun
  • The house was not fit for human habitation.
  • Scott says Lane lived on a farm that wasn’t fit for habitation.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • If Earth is still amenable to human habitation, my guess is no.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • The next era of space habitation will not be built with small thinking, Miyan said.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • For the shocking absence of any sound, or sight of human habitation.
    — Pico Iyer, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • About 34 percent of those lived in a place not meant for human habitation.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But overall, there are no signs of long-term habitation inside the structure.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The inspection is required to deem the house safe for habitation.
    — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2018
  • Or somewhere not meant for human habitation.
    — CBS News, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The rest of the islands are set aside for agriculture and tourism, with no human habitation on them at all.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 29 June 2021
  • For the most part, the area is empty, an arid wilderness of ungoverned space devoid of habitation.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2017
  • But Malé is already pressed up hard against the limits of human habitation.
    — Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The young man speaks of his unease at the idea of being in such a city, deserted by any form of life or habitation.
    — Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
  • King was convicted of burglary of a habitation with a deadly weapon.
    — Dallas Morning News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Dreams travel worstward, during a fever, and one job of the movies is to give our dreams, good or bad, a local habitation and a name.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 May 2020
  • It will also be used as a test-bed for long-term habitation and preparatory work for permanent bases.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
  • As with many compact and mid-size crossovers with third-row seats, the Journey’s are useless for adult habitation.
    — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Then there are the problems of building a habitation and doing all the recycling.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The Gravettians were the ones who opened up the tundra to human habitation, and were hunters of mega-fauna.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
  • The site lies along ancient trade routes and shows evidence of habitation dating back thousands of years, the same source said.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The base itself was a study in the feasibility of long-term human habitation on the ice sheet.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Without Darkness At night, places with dense human habitation are easy to spot from space.
    — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • This week, tents could be seen next to the railroad tracks, with other signs of habitation seen nearby in a sparse tangle of bushes and scrubs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Fire changed human habitation in ways our ancestors could hardly have imagined.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The habitation part of the platform is scheduled to launch one year later, in 2023.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Both sides of the river were identical—banks of dense forest with no sign of habitation, let alone border control.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Wild elephants often stray into human habitations this time of year, when rice fields are ready for harvesting.
    — CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But standing on the deck of a ship, surrounded by icebergs, and not a sign of human habitation in sight, gets pretty damn close.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Today, the view from the hillside of Beinn Rosail shows no sign of human habitation.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • The apartment was now too cold for habitation, and the family spent the night with others in the basement of a jewelry shop.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022

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