How to Use inhabited in a Sentence

inhabited

adjective
  • How many inhabited planets are there in our galaxy right now?
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Chile and Argentina were the only inhabited places where the total eclipse could be seen.
    — Eva Vergara, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • The closest inhabited solar system could be much, much farther away.
    — Matthew Hutson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to the three inhabited floors, the eight-bedroom house has a vast attic and a network of cellars.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
  • That means the weather was ripe for fire, and wind gusts of up to 25 miles per hour quickly whipped the fire toward inhabited areas.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Roughly 70% of that surface is ocean and much of the rest is desert or other sparsely inhabited terrain.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 June 2025
  • And yet, during at least most (and possibly all) of that time, Earth was indeed an inhabited planet.
    — Big Think, 17 Feb. 2026
  • For millennia, there have been wars and rumors of wars on every inhabited continent, too.
    — Paul Prather, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Kauai and Niihau, at 5 million years, are the oldest of the inhabited islands.
    — Elizabeth Chang, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • It should be kept in mind that the territory the cession of which is provided for is largely desert and very sparsely inhabited.
    — Anonymous, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2011
  • Once on the islands, there are regular car ferry services between many of the inhabited islands.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In the search for life in the Universe, the ultimate goal is to find an inhabited planet beyond Earth.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Fortunately, no one was injured, and the nearest inhabited area was about 10 km away.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The local economy is based around fishing and farming, with the nearest inhabited islands a couple of hours away by boat.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • The concrete statue of a bull in the center of town marks the coldest temperature ever recorded in any inhabited place on earth.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2018
  • This sparsely inhabited spot, at the time, out of range of cellphones, suddenly became a hive of activity.
    — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The sparsely inhabited area of the quakes ran from Pedro Bay to Nikolski.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Derna’s disaster came when floodwaters poured down the hills surrounding the city, burst through two dams, and washed away about a quarter of the inhabited area.
    — Sarah Dadouch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Most bird nests are protected under a federal law that prohibits destroying inhabited nests or taking eggs and chicks.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
  • The list of sizable debris that has fallen to Earth too close for comfort to inhabited areas is worrisomely long.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2026
  • If Concordia is the first inhabited place to see the ring of fire, Mirny Station will be the second and final.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In Australia, the largest inhabited place that will experience a total eclipse is the small town of Exmouth.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Close attention and careful listening revealed that the deep silence was alive, inhabited.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • The typical inhabited island is likewise rich in sunshine and warmth and has access to a shallow lagoon, palm trees and maybe a mangrove forest.
    — Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Go ashore on Heimaey, the only inhabited isle in the archipelago, and wander among the white wooden buildings of the single tiny town.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • But villages in the mountains surrounding Aomori get twice as much and hold the record for the most snow in an inhabited area at almost 60 feet.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There are no populated areas along its path, and no ashfall has been recorded in inhabited localities.
    — Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • King’s, in every sense, singular effort recalls a time when explosive crowd-pleasers felt less optimized and more inhabited.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • Sheriff’s detectives re-booked him on a separate count of arson to an inhabited structure for the Lemon Grove fire.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Pitcairn is the only inhabited one—with a population of around 50 people.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2025

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