inhabitants

Example Sentences

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One imagines many inhabitants of Middle England at the time saying, “if only we still had a king like Offa.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Reactive evacuation measures, for example, saved 96% of Japanese inhabitants when the major tsunami struck the Tōhoku coast on March 11 2011.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

America may have empowered the president to give the capital a case of Mar-a-Lago face, but the city’s inhabitants get only the slightest of say in federal matters.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Actor DiCaprio added: "Thank you truly for everything you've done and continue to do, for our very precious planet and all its inhabitants."

From BBC • May 8, 2026

So Capricorn's men avoided that part of the village, where dirty dishes left by its long-gone inhabitants still stood on many tables behind dilapidated front doors.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke