habitation
Example Sentences
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You won’t see deer, tapir, peccaries, monkeys or chicken-like curassows anywhere within trekking distance of habitation; they’ve all been eaten.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
"This facility had been occupied by Daesh, most likely to store weapons and explosives. The area around the facility is devoid of any civilian habitation," the statement added.
From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026
Some of these have been hijacked and are unfit for human habitation.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
“The habitation of these people on the island,” one Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist wrote in a 1957 report, “will afford the most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Hill House, whatever the cause, has been unfit for human habitation for upwards of twenty years.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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