denizens

Example Sentences

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In New York, all roads eventually lead to Central Park, fondly referred to as the city’s “lungs” for providing a space for its denizens to breathe.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

And the exhibition tries to tell its story through the everyday life of its many denizens.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Scholars and denizens of espionage make the same distinction.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2025

Most of what he heard he’d learned in Sisterton, from Lord Godric or the denizens of the Belly of the Whale.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin