uninhabited

Example Sentences

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The island is almost uninhabited but experts say it has a unique ecosystem of animal and plant life.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Cruise-goers could view Inaccessible Island, an uninhabited site home to the breeding grounds for many species of rare birds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

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

The wide passages made our house feel like a hotel, as did the impersonal smell of doors kept locked most of the year, of unused bathrooms and kitchens and toilets, of uninhabited rooms.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie