inhabitants
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The new wardens of a tiny island with only a handful of human inhabitants say moving there full-time has been a "dream come true".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Reactive evacuation measures, for example, saved 96% of Japanese inhabitants when the major tsunami struck the Tōhoku coast on March 11 2011.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
"There were no weapons in the building. There was no political activity. There was no reason to destroy this building and its inhabitants," Sabbagh said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
America may have empowered the president to give the capital a case of Mar-a-Lago face, but the city’s inhabitants get only the slightest of say in federal matters.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
There was no reaction to this by the Indigo Man, which puzzled Bod even more because even the most irritable inhabitants of the graveyard had been calmed by this statement.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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