uninhabitable

Example Sentences

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After the quake, thousands of people whose homes had been made uninhabitable or who feared aftershocks slept out for weeks by the moat, but it is once again the preserve of morning joggers and sightseers.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

They also highlighted an additional 24 planets within a more restrictive 3D habitable zone, based on tighter assumptions about how much heat a planet can tolerate before becoming uninhabitable.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Some crave adventure while others see the planet as a backup home in the event that Earth is rendered uninhabitable by an asteroid strike or runaway climate change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Both homes were left uninhabitable by the fires.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann