Example Sentences

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While these sobering developments could trigger climate despair, the experts who commented for this article insisted that "uninhabitability" is a potentially damaging framework through which to view the question of climate change.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2023

Entire regions of the world teeter now at the brink of uninhabitability.

From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2023

While experts issue warnings about the eventual uninhabitability of the Marshall Islands, President David Kabua must reconcile the inequity of a seawall built to protect one house that is now flooding another one next door.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

To the right of her home are a line of weed-bedraggled cement slabs, where her neighbors once lived; empty plots left by those driven away by the uninhabitability of this coast.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

On account of their uninhabitability, their difficulty of149 access, and their unknown commercial value, the antarctic lands have claimed far less attention than the north polar regions.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello