Example Sentences

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"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," the lawyer said in his suicide note, quoted by the New York Times.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2018

“Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather,” Buckel wrote in the email that news outlets, including the New York Times, received.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2018

A visitor to our planet at that time might not have held out much hope for its inhabitability, although life still survived in the oceans.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The result, which Domecq never perceives, is invariably monstrous: novels and poems that can not be read, art that cannot be seen, architecture � freed from the "demands of inhabitability" � that cannot be used.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gentlemen," began the Captain in reply, "I had formed my opinion regarding the ancient inhabitability of our Satellite long before I ever dreamed of testing my theory by anything like our present journey.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward