Example sentences for: inhabitant

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

  • Ask an older inhabitant for his or her age and you may well get the familiar reply, As old as my little finger and a bit older than my teeth.

  • The predilection for the flesh of Strombus gigas, the queen conch, by the white Bahamians and their relatives on the Florida Keys is cited by many etymologists in explaining the origin of the appellation Conch for a `native or inhabitant of the Florida Keys' or a `Bahamian.

  • The Constitution requires only that a senator "when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen."

  • It is far more likely that the preponderance of evidence would show that an entry with a capital M might—conceivably—warrant a comment like, “ rarely lower case .” Only the second entry, a noun including the senses “native[s] or inhabitant[s]; descendant; and language[s],” shows “ cap .” Where Gove's researchers came up with such highly detailed information about the distribution of such forms is hard to imagine.

  • When Marco Polo visited in the 13th century, he pronounced the city superior to “all others in the world, in grandeur and beauty as well as its abundant delights, which might lead an inhabitant to imagine himself in paradise.”


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