How to Use inhabit in a Sentence

inhabit

verb
  • This part of the country is inhabited by native tribes.
  • Several hundred species of birds inhabit the island.
  • The novel is inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.
  • There is a romantic quality that inhabits all her paintings.
  • Most of the time, these are two squads that barely inhabit the same sport.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But, eight months later, the home is still not safe to inhabit.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Some, like the gray reef shark and blacktip shark, inhabit coral reefs.
    — Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2025
  • There's nothing cursed about them, even if old ghosts inhabit the yard.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
  • That seems like a lot to inhabit with your one small body within the space of a few years.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The deer inhabit open fields in warm weather and denser forests in winter.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Not just how to handle weapons, but how to act, how to inhabit something.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The games reflect the two worlds the boys inhabit, one by day and the other at night.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Unlike with a green screen, actors can see the world that they’re meant to inhabit.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Yet part of our job is to gauge, and sometimes even inhabit, the mind of the normie voter.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • In my village, jokes weren’t told so much as inhabited.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • In this scheme, free will was feeble, and sin could be blamed on dark forces inhabiting the body.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The true mystique is being able to build a world people want to inhabit.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • All of that was a cakewalk compared to having to inhabit the mind of a killer for six months.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 May 2022
  • That is, if the fish do indeed inhabit the waters all around the island.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 21 May 2021
  • This is so dark, to inhabit this character.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This is so dark, to inhabit this character.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Rising plumes of smoke showed it was inhabited.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • My belly was tied in small, tight knots, and a family of rats seemed to inhabit my clothes.
    — Robert Ruark, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The next best thing to taking care of the garden beds is taking care of the wildlife that inhabits them.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2026
  • So to inhabit a character like that, to be a part of a project like this just was very healing for me.
    — Sabienna Bowman, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To forever inhabit this space that Bona has cleared for us.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Ground covers do not inhabit the easiest places to grow.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This signals to birds that the wreath is already inhabited.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
  • Each sound inhabits its own space, hardly touching the others.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But close inspection reveals a home that is frayed at the edges, like the couple that inhabits it.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024

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