inhabiting

Example Sentences

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When the nefarious Pilkington Industries repossesses Manor Farm after a failure to make payments, the animals inhabiting the stead are nearly trucked off to their demise.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

By 1956 the father of two sons had developed the “mystic conviction that he was inhabiting the wrong body.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Puppets create a liminal space between the quotidian and the fantastic, while inhabiting the same, actual three-dimensional space as the rest of us.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Rhinoceroses have a long evolutionary history spanning more than 40 million years, once inhabiting nearly every continent except South America and Antarctica.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

This is a tropical or subtropical insect, inhabiting South and Central America and Mexico, and in the United States normally restricted to the Southwest.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson