inhabited
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- inhabitedness noun
- uninhabited adjective
- well-inhabited adjective
Etymology
Origin of inhabited
Example Sentences
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There’s not a moment in the play that isn’t deeply inhabited by a cast that understands the value of listening.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
In 1971, he said that by “the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The majority of the island is owned by NTS, which describes Fair Isle as the UK's most remote inhabited island.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Until then, I had believed that a person inhabited his or her whole body.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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