How to Use uninhabitable in a Sentence

uninhabitable

adjective
  • Those places are more or less uninhabitable, let alone arable.
    — NBC News, 6 May 2020
  • And the most of the area will be uninhabitable for the same period of time.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The fire spread to a nearby home that is now uninhabitable, Coe said.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Smoke damage, though, left the rest of the house uninhabitable and in need of repairs.
    — Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • And left unchecked, climate change will cause droughts, floods, fires, and storms that could make large parts of the world uninhabitable.
    — William Hartung, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The worst, of course, would be for the planet to become uninhabitable.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Bri also built a karaoke room in this weird kind of uninhabitable little space next to the laundry room.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • All of this combined will lead to parts of the region being uninhabitable for weeks, if not months.
    — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Fire or heat or drought could make the habitat uninhabitable, leaving the squirrels no place to go.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • Cormorants bulked up on small fish that had returned to a stretch of the channel that two months ago was uninhabitable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Even if the home is uninhabitable, always pay your rent on time and keep a record of those payments to avoid eviction.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • By that time, the sun will have bloated and reddened and made our planet uninhabitable.
    — John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Any rental unit that doesn’t have both will be considered uninhabitable.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Locally, more than half the houses were deemed uninhabitable or, worse, had to be razed to the ground.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 June 2020
  • The place would be uninhabitable, its roof sagging from the weight of the water from firemen’s hoses.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 6 July 2021
  • The complex was in need of repairs and many of its 80 units were uninhabitable.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, Courant Community, 13 June 2018
  • The blaze caused heavy damage and rendered the home uninhabitable.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Flames tore through the house, leaving it uninhabitable and forcing Brown to move in with his adult son.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • As the Earth warms up, large swaths of the planet will become uninhabitable.
    — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, a hard rain in Seoul turns to a flash flood, which leaves their basement home uninhabitable.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The fire started in the back of the duplex and the damage was enough to make the structure uninhabitable.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The park was hard hit by the quake and several of the mobile homes had red tags, marking them as uninhabitable.
    — Paloma Esquivel, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
  • Her apartment is uninhabitable since the wind blew out the windows and covered her bed in glass and asphalt.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Zehl said the family has been living in a hotel since the crash, which left the house uninhabitable.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • That property is now deemed uninhabitable by the city, but power crews are working on it.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The rest were uninhabitable because of water and smoke, Evans said.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The house remains fenced off and uninhabitable.
    — Graham Womack may 18, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • If at any point your unit becomes uninhabitable, the landlord must pay for the repairs to restore it to a livable state.
    — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
  • My image was that the surface of the earth has become fairly uninhabitable.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • As a result of this, many areas of the country will simply become uninhabitable, lost to the sea.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2020

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