Example Sentences

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In 1882, the Havasupai people were removed from the Grand Canyon plateau, which they had inhabited for centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

The Abenaki Alliance told Fox News Digital that their people had inhabited the land that included Vermont for 12,000 years.

From Washington Times • Jul. 9, 2023

Magda’s husband had died a decade ago, but the 61-year-old continued to live in the same apartment the family had inhabited for 30 years.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

These were luxuries far beyond any I had before known in the various apartments I had inhabited during my two decades in the city.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2021

What we saw was not the same house we had believed we had inhabited if only for a day.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall