uninhabited

Example Sentences

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The island is almost uninhabited but experts say it has a unique ecosystem of animal and plant life.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Marooned on their own de facto uninhabited island.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

And so the plans for Operation Exodus were set: The Rainbow Warrior would move the entire population of Rongelap 100 miles south, to the uninhabited island of Mejato.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

It was lonely, uninhabited country, so that there were no bridges, and the river if anything became wider as they trotted along the banks.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford