- present participle of inhabit.
inhabiting
Example Sentences
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"He was inhabiting the music through his whole body."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The brisk, absurdist tale sketches the duo’s difficulties in inhabiting their newly assumed roles and in the provisional nature of role-playing in general.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Studies have even shown that inhabiting a character increases one’s ability to see from others’ perspectives.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Many of the news stories highlighted the threat to the unique plants and animals inhabiting the island off the coast of Santa Barbara, from plucky, pint-sized foxes to the rarest pine trees in North America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
What I am paid to do is to observe him in a rigorous present tense, as a subject dynamically inhabiting a scene, as a phenomenon of study.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
