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

The tiny nation's native language is "Dorerin Naoero", which is spoken by the vast majority of its approximately 10,000 inhabitants.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

They knew just what the divine inhabitants did there, what they ate and drank and where they banqueted and how they amused themselves.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton