denizens

Example Sentences

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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

Were the U.S. to replace that Danish grant, that alone would make the island’s residents the largest per capita recipients of federal grants, surpassing denizens of Alaska or Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

There was, in all of the denizens of the town, an expectation of riot, famine, and sickness.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson