inhabited
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- inhabitedness noun
- uninhabited adjective
- well-inhabited adjective
Etymology
Origin of inhabited
Example Sentences
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And it had nothing to do with it already being inhabited by a very talkative hare.
From Literature
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I met him in a trendy bar in Kyiv, a world away from the six metre deep dug out he inhabited with his squad at the front line for more than 100 days.
From BBC
The El Cano archaeological site is linked to the societies that inhabited the central provinces of Panama between the 8th and 11th centuries.
From Barron's
The settlement is largely inhabited by washermen and their families, many of whom live and work there.
From BBC
The second was the Early Holocene, 12,000-8,000 years ago, just after the last Ice Age, when Mesolithic hunter-gatherers from our own species, Homo sapiens, inhabited the region.
From Science Daily
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