denizens

Example Sentences

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All the denizens of Thoreau’s Cape Cod, from its scraggly scrub pine trees to its people, exemplify the humility that goes hand-in-hand with danger.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Before it was destroyed, Mariupol’s theater served as a bomb shelter whose denizens cut across social, economic and cultural classes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

And the exhibition tries to tell its story through the everyday life of its many denizens.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

McCandless spoke frequently to the denizens of the Slabs about his plans for Alaska.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer