inhabitants
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The canal's watershed also supplies drinking water to half of Panama's 4.6 million inhabitants via infrastructure that was designed almost a century ago.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Italy’s sixth-largest city, with just under 600,000 inhabitants, Genoa is still a little gritty in stretches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The newcomer was KD1, a 4½-year-old eagle who has since become a repeat visitor to the aerie that’s livestreamed around the clock, earning its inhabitants worldwide internet fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Alex Grant, a chemical engineer from Toronto, started a magnesium-smelting company in 2022 and named it Magrathea after a planet in Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” whose inhabitants build other planets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The inhabitants of number twelve were never seen by anybody in the surrounding houses, and nor was number twelve itself.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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