Example sentences for: inhabitant

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • (According to a new report, Alaska ranks second among states in total federal spending per inhabitant, receiving 42 percent more than the average state.

  • Marking the official arrival in Sarajevo of the world's 6 billionth inhabitant, China Daily quoted Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji as saying that his government would continue to make family planning "a fundamental state policy."


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