How to Use habitable in a Sentence

habitable

adjective
Definition of habitablenext
Synonyms for habitablenext
  • The house is not habitable.
  • The car struck one unit of the townhouse, and only that unit is not habitable, Roche said.
    — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The city is asking the court to order the owners to make the property safe and habitable.
    — Greg Garrison | Ggarrison@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
  • But Mars was too small to have a real shot at staying habitable in the long run.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Cleanup defined the first phase as the couple set about making the place habitable again.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Egypt and Bangladesh could lose almost one-fifth of their habitable land.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 17 June 2021
  • Only about half of it is habitable, but hundreds of feet of shore have been lost in past decades.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Now a new study finds that a habitable world may indeed need just the right amount of these radionuclides.
    — Marcus Woo, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Rising seas will also push their ecosystem farther up the beach and to the edges of their habitable zone.
    — Jules Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In fact, most planets that stayed habitable at least once, did so fewer than ten times out of 100.
    — Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Both planets circle a red dwarf star, and one, known as LP 890-9c, might even be habitable.
    — CBS News, 8 May 2024
  • The problem is, the planet closely hugs its parent star, a red dwarf, and lies well outside the habitable zone.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • The habitable zone is an area around a star where liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet and life may be able to emerge and thrive.
    — Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In New York City, the rental vacancy rate, which is the share of habitable unoccupied units, has dropped to a record low 1.4%.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In such a grim future scenario, where will be as safe and habitable as today?
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Now the size of a US football field, the station has a habitable volume equivalent to a six-bedroom house.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • If the home is only partially damaged, but the rest is still habitable, the rent will be reduced.
    — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This distance is referred to by astronomers as the habitable zone.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Some are strictly empirical, like the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way and the fraction of those stars with habitable planets.
    — Dennis Overbye, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The star hosts at least seven planets, four of them being habitable.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for evidence that the world could be habitable.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Police said the habitable and visible part of the house where the party was being held was on the second floor and out of the officer’s view.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2022
  • However, that planet is much closer to its star and is outside of the habitable zone.
    — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2023
  • During the year’s highest tides, water washes over parts of the habitable land.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The Earth currently sits roughly in the middle of the Sun’s habitable zone, with Venus just on the inner edge and Mars almost outside of it.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The size and type of the star significantly affect the location of the habitable zone.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • The third row is not just habitable but comfortable for adults, with the seat cushion now about two inches higher off the floor for more stretch-out space.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 30 May 2023
  • But the Moon isn’t exactly a habitable place for people.
    — Lulu Zhao, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Kane holds out hope that more sensitive telescopes will discern more worlds in the habitable zone.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Brazil, Australia and India would see the greatest area of land become less habitable.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 6 June 2023

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