Sample sentences for INHABITANT

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a person who lives in a particular place

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

Inhabitants of the high-rise project complain of living in dehumanizing conditions.

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

So many changes took place in such a short time that eight months after Mr. Herbert's visit the old inhabitants had a hard time recognizing their own town.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

After nine hours of listening to the eccentricities of Old Sarum's inhabitants, Judge Taylor threw the case out of court.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

inhabitants = people that live in a particular place

Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift their voice; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

We are marching in column; the French certainly will not fire on a town in which there are still inhabitants.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

On Camazotz the inhabitants had at least resembled people.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

inhabitants = beings (who live in a particular place)

The inhabitants of these offices were creatures of their environment: little gray-faced men, they seemed untouched by wind or sun.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

inhabitants = people who spend time in a place

Her speech was crisp for a Maycomb County inhabitant.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

inhabitant = a person who lives in a particular place

The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around them so that Meg felt that she could almost reach out and touch them: "Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof."
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
On the other side though one occasionally sees inhabitants.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
"How many inhabitants has Melbourne?" asks Miller.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
Aren't there any inhabitants here at all then?
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
The Indians had burned Gnadenhut, a village settled by the Moravians, and massacred the inhabitants
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

inhabitant = person that lives in a particular place

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