inhabitants
Example Sentences
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Ghosts, the Bafta-nominated TV comedy about a young couple who inerit a crumbling mansion with spooky inhabitants, is being made into a feature film.
From BBC
That same courthouse, according to Leah, was cleared of rubbish as its inhabitants cheered: “Welcome to the Fox family.”
From Literature
Since the 1980s, Mauritius has lobbied to gain control of the islands, which were cleared of a few thousand inhabitants in the early 1970s.
Bodo is a small coastal city north of the Arctic circle, which many would struggle to find on a map, with only 50,000 inhabitants.
From Barron's
Greenland’s 56,000 inhabitants are spread across a mostly ice-covered area more than three times the size of Texas, with no roads connecting any settlements.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
