How to Use inhabitant in a Sentence

inhabitant

noun
  • The place's old inhabitants say that a voice is heard many nights.
    — Photovogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
  • As in what does a yard convey about the inhabitants of the home?
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Gaza inhabitants were left with just a few hours of power a day.
    — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Wogan said no inhabitants of the home were present when the fire began.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • The rest of the world’s living inhabitants don’t have it so good.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
  • No traces were found of grates, locks, or chains to restrain the room’s inhabitants.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But the rebels, the camp's inhabitants say, were also to blame.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, Frederik Pleitgen and Claudia Otto, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That's two-thirds of the city's inhabitants left without a home.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But what on earth were the inhabitants of this new nation going to eat?
    — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 14 Feb. 2025
  • On the left, a body whose inhabitant is unhappy with it in some way.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 3 July 2025
  • But there are some plus sides, such as the bunker’s inhabitants still being able to dance to yacht rock.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 10 Jan. 2026
  • An attack like this could empty a city of inhabitants – and for how long?
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • Maybe the next inhabitant of the White House will be more up to the task.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Its inhabitants arrive there by boat, across a sea that washes the past clean.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • This was one of the main reasons early inhabitants kept many dogs.
    — Buckley T. Foster Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • So is the grove’s largest inhabitant, on which the paint has been applied in a smiley face.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • Moreover, the inhabitants of these parts didn’t feel displaced as of the time of the study.
    — Olga Mecking, The Atlantic, 11 June 2018
  • The home’s only inhabitants now are the small green lizards that dart up and down its gray concrete walls.
    — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The dearth of trees on the island implied to some that the inhabitants had cut them down to make clubs and shields.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • These days, firefighters try to care for all of the inhabitants of a home damaged by fire.
    — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2019
  • Many of the homes have plaques stating the year the house was built and the names of the original inhabitants.
    — Amy Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
  • The extent of the rot, and the dire risks facing the building and its inhabitants, are well known.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
  • The inhabitants were afraid of actions as simple as turning on the lights.
    — Diana García, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The gillagers, without deeds, could do nothing but watch as new inhabitants crowded in.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That its inhabitants were one people among many, just like everyone else.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • What's not to love about Oriental, a town with more than three times as many boats as year-round inhabitants?
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Too long for the inhabitants enduring it all.
    — Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • There was also the time that it was used as a burial ground for some of the town’s earliest inhabitants.
    — Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • That also might suggest that the inhabitants of those galaxies should find those same laws of physics.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'inhabitant.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: