inhabitants
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Hungarians were once among the wealthiest inhabitants of the former Warsaw Pact nations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
The LA28 committee described the arrival of the Games as a boon for the city’s inhabitants, with unifying statements: “Creating the Games together!”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Families were loaded on to tipper trucks and driven about 30 minutes away to Kubwa, an area where residents say basic amenities were missing and tensions emerged with the original inhabitants.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Pusztavacs, which has 1,300 inhabitants, received state support to renovate its cemetery and church and got its first automatic cash machine last year as part of a government law to install machines in all villages.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
A victim was still needed before the outsiders and many of the old inhabitants of Macondo would credit the legend that Remedios Buendía did not give off a breath of love but a fatal emanation.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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