Example sentences for: inhabit

How can you use “inhabit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It can also mean learning that my humanity is larger than the roles I inhabit, and in the exploration of my individuality I also, paradoxically, discover the possibility of a deeper connection with many kinds of people.

  • It might pass for deserted, if not for the peacocks and pheasants who inhabit the botanical gardens, and the visitors strolling amidst the palms and rhododendrons.

  • That, in turn, demythologizes the world they inhabit.

  • Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.

  • The MV Island Cement was deliberately sunk in 1982 to create an artificial dive site, though the creatures that inhabit the area don’t seem to be bothered by the man-made skeleton.


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