make habitable
Example Sentences
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Mr. Iseman’s container, painted azure inside, cost about $12,000 to make habitable, with a lofted bed and a picture window carved into one flank.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2015
Corney had indeed taken a good many things from the house to make habitable the waste expanse, but had been careful not to take anything Sarah would miss.
From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George
We shall also discover what wonderful things men are doing to make up for the failures of Nature, and to make habitable many of those places which she left uninhabitable.
From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
In Sussex alone are several half-ruined houses that the builders could quickly make habitable once more.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
Now let us try to discover in how far we can change Nature's plan and make habitable those places which she left uninhabitable.
From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
