Example Sentences

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You can observe a school of fish before you, then look up and see the sunlight piercing the water, as if you too were inhabiting the depths.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

In the Smokies, she encountered locals who were oblivious to the land’s fraught history and had no idea they were inhabiting sacred songline territory.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2017

Unless Snyder and his people were inhabiting caves for the past two years, they too should have known all of this as the scandal continued to unravel.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2016

The trading teams at Goldman and the executives who presided over them were inhabiting an extreme variant of a closed world, where their reality was populated by the electronic images and databases of their systems.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2014

Many of the misnamed dead are present, and when we go to sleep at night we meet them and converse with them just the same as if they were inhabiting their mortal bodies.

From The Secret of Dreams by Raizizun, Yacki