make habitable
Example Sentences
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Mr. Iseman’s container, painted azure inside, cost about $12,000 to make habitable, with a lofted bed and a picture window carved into one flank.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2015
In Sussex alone are several half-ruined houses that the builders could quickly make habitable once more.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
We shall also discover what wonderful things men are doing to make up for the failures of Nature, and to make habitable many of those places which she left uninhabitable.
From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
"It would make habitable and even pleasant," said he, "a dwelling where age and bitterness had their abode."
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
Now let us try to discover in how far we can change Nature's plan and make habitable those places which she left uninhabitable.
From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
