inhabitant

in a sentence

You'll use your knowledge for the welfare of the oasis and its inhabitants.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

On Camazotz the inhabitants had at least resembled people.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

After nine hours of listening to the eccentricities of Old Sarum's inhabitants, Judge Taylor threw the case out of court.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

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.  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

When an Indian village became too deep in its own filth, the inhabitants moved.  (source) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

On reaching Entrance Crater, the lone inhabitant of Mars turned his vehicle toward the Schiaparelli Basin.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

Aren't there any inhabitants here at all then?  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

Stand fast and fight!' yelled Sir Cadogan in a muffled voice from behind his visor, but Harry merely walked on and when Sir Cadogan attempted to follow him by running into a neighbouring picture, he was rebuffed by its inhabitant, a large and angry-looking wolfhound.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

The Indians had burned Gnadenhut, a village settled by the Moravians, and massacred the inhabitants  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

He gave advice, cool, sensible, and unfailingly correct; he knew more than the graveyard folk did, for his nightly excursions into the world outside meant that he was able to describe a world that was current, not hundreds of years out of date; he was unflappable and dependable, had been there every night of Bod's life, so the idea of the little chapel without its only inhabitant was one that Bod found difficult to conceive of most of all, he made Bod feel safe.†  (source) Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, 2008

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:  (source) Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence, 1776

He was in the bed and aware of the cold sheets but he was also suspended, isolated, inhabitant of an unknown land, an unknown world and he himself unidentified.†  (source) Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese, 1977