uninhabited
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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It was uninhabited by humans but teeming with wildlife— iron-beaked gaganas flew overhead, glinting in the sun, and as the boat drew in, a cluster of small wildcats with luminescent fur went sprinting away.
From Literature
The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.
From Barron's
Israel is a world leader in surveillance technology, drones, small arms and other products of great use to a resource-strapped government that oversees a vast and largely uninhabited territory.
Japan has its own territorial dispute with China over a cluster of uninhabited islands called the Senkakus.
A new ranger is being sought for a tiny uninhabited island in the north west Highlands.
From BBC
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