How to Use uninhabitable in a Sentence

uninhabitable

adjective
Definition of uninhabitablenext
Synonyms for uninhabitablenext
  • And the most of the area will be uninhabitable for the same period of time.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The fire started in the back of the duplex and the damage was enough to make the structure uninhabitable.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Smoke damage, though, left the rest of the house uninhabitable and in need of repairs.
    — Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The fire spread to a nearby home that is now uninhabitable, Coe said.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • And left unchecked, climate change will cause droughts, floods, fires, and storms that could make large parts of the world uninhabitable.
    — William Hartung, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The worst, of course, would be for the planet to become uninhabitable.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Parts of it may be uninhabitable for years, if not decades.
    — Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Like much of Sanibel, the ground-level house the Stroups bought last year is uninhabitable.
    — Brittany Shammas, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The place would be uninhabitable, its roof sagging from the weight of the water from firemen’s hoses.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 6 July 2021
  • As the Earth warms up, large swaths of the planet will become uninhabitable.
    — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Even if the home is uninhabitable, always pay your rent on time and keep a record of those payments to avoid eviction.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Bri also built a karaoke room in this weird kind of uninhabitable little space next to the laundry room.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • All of this combined will lead to parts of the region being uninhabitable for weeks, if not months.
    — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Cormorants bulked up on small fish that had returned to a stretch of the channel that two months ago was uninhabitable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The war also has rendered much of the enclave uninhabitable and pushed the population to the brink of famine.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Clay and brick homes were uninhabitable after the quake.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Battalion Chief Jim Rhodes said the restaurant is uninhabitable due to a lot of smoke and heat damage to the inside of the building.
    — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The church has been mostly uninhabitable since 2020, the reverend said.
    — Aaron Morrison, al, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Fire or heat or drought could make the habitat uninhabitable, leaving the squirrels no place to go.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • Last year was the hottest year on record and scientists say the world is on track to heat up even more, such that some parts of the planet will become uninhabitable.
    — Nik Popli, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Researchers added that the advance of salt into the soil would leave the land barren and uninhabitable long before the sea engulfs it.
    — Daniel Cole, ajc, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Her apartment is uninhabitable since the wind blew out the windows and covered her bed in glass and asphalt.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The problem is that 70 percent of all the buildings in the north have either been destroyed or made uninhabitable.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Later this summer, part of the grandstand, which had been condemned and ruled uninhabitable, will be torn down along with the barns on the backstretch.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
  • By that time, the sun will have bloated and reddened and made our planet uninhabitable.
    — John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Moore explains that as the climate changes, the conditions in the river might become uninhabitable for the fish.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The rest were uninhabitable because of water and smoke, Evans said.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Things could be so bad that the affected areas would be without power and uninhabitable for months.
    — NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024

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