inhabit
verb (used with object)
to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals.
was inhabiting
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past progressiveof inhabit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"He was inhabiting the music through his whole body."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
By 1956 the father of two sons had developed the “mystic conviction that he was inhabiting the wrong body.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He received a reply from Pauline Schindler, who was inhabiting the historic Kings Road house that her ex-husband, Viennese-born Modernist Rudolph Schindler, had completed for their habitation in 1922.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
In those earlier tracks, it always seemed that she was inhabiting a space of lovelorn glory in part because of what it allowed her to do for her listeners.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018
Thus during 10,000 years, each species will ebb away from certain regions it was inhabiting; and during the succeeding 10,000 years will flow back into those regions.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
