uninhabitable

Example Sentences

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The Craftsman-style subdivision, built on a former school site, was newly completed and mostly sold when the Eaton fire destroyed seven of its 16 homes and rendered the rest uninhabitable.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

But those supplies have long dried up, and researchers today estimate 80 percent of Nauru has been rendered uninhabitable by mining.

From Barron's • May 13, 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

Where the conventional view had been that lands close to the equator must be uninhabitable, this had turned out to be nonsense.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton