uninhabited

Example Sentences

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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

Israel is a world leader in surveillance technology, drones, small arms and other products of great use to a resource-strapped government that oversees a vast and largely uninhabited territory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

A new ranger is being sought for a tiny uninhabited island in the north west Highlands.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

He found to his dismay that there were few of these, the line passing mostly through uninhabited regions of lakes and hills.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford