(v. t.) To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.
(v. i.) To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(2) The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea.
(3) Staphylococci were the predominant inhabitants of normal skin, whereas micrococci were found only occasionally in this environment.
(4) When matched on number of inhabitants per birthplace, no significant differences were found.
(5) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(8) All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well.
(9) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(10) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.
(11) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
(12) During the MONICA project, the survey of cardiovascular risk factor prevalence enabled us to measure the thickness of four skinfolds (biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac) in 263 inhabitants of Lausanne (125 men, 138 women).
(13) The POL-MONICA Project screened in 1984 1309 men and 1337 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of Warsaw (the Warsaw centre) and 1250 men and 1472 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of the Tarnobrzeg province (the Cracow centre).
(14) Inhabitants are excluded from other social housing despite many having lived in Italy for generations; a fact the tribunal in Rome cited as evidence of discrimination on ethnic grounds.
(15) During the last 3 years the number of prisoners in Finland, has risen, being for the moment 105 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Europe.
(16) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
(17) There are presently five doctors for a 130,000 inhabitants population, collaborating in the setting up of basic health services.
(18) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
(19) In this period, the incidence was highest in the age group 70-79 years for both women and men, with 485 and 410 arthroplasties per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively; the overall incidence was 82 per 100,000 inhabitants.
(20) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.
Lair
Definition:
(n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
(n.) A burying place.
(n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
(2) It has been found that during the ULAIR elaboration the hippocampal neurons react by an increase of dry mass, during the LAIR elaboration-by its decrease.
(3) Journalism must work to earn back that trust; but in the meantime, Thiel’s revenge, executed with chilling precision like a comic-book villain in an ominous lair, should distress anyone with any interest in free speech.
(4) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
(5) At Open House Weekend each September (and on occasional tours), you can visit the parlour and see the society’s array of drug jars; the whole complex has something of the master wizard’s lair about it.
(6) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
(7) On a very small budget he creates the distinctive set for the lair of the Bond villain on Crab Key that will define his character for years to come – high-tech in its futuristic, scientific working area; Renaissance-princely in its domestic aspect.
(8) The shooting script for today's scenes is titled "Alice's Lair", and that word is a considered choice.
(9) But was it then any defence that he acted so seldom, that he had deserted the stage he had himself brought to life, or that he had come to regard movies with the hurt feelings of a Kong, hiding in his lair, unwilling to make a cheap spectacle of himself for those exploiting showmen?
(10) Cath Jackson reports on the last of the 1990 National health visitor week award-winning projects which successfully tracked this elusive client group to its lairs.
(11) Under condition of serotonine excess in the brain the changes of dry mass in hippocampal neurons during elaboration of the two reflexes are opposite to these observed during the ULAIR and LAIR elaboration with normal serotonine content.
(12) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
(13) Rather, COR is a dimly lit auditorium, with the functionality of a Bond villain’s techno-lair.
(14) Pete is about to retreat in to his lair: "I can't help, mate," he says.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Approaching the end-of-level boss on the Devils' Lair strike mission and things begin to look rather dark... We're into the final section of the mission now.
(16) To find out, Devine made the unusual decision to track the author to his lair.
(17) The section we’re seeing is a Strike mission named The Devils’ Lair, set in the toxic wastelands of Old Russia.
(18) Turkey's determination to beard Assad in his lair comes amid growing Arab criticism of Syria, reflected in the Gulf Co-operation Council 's weekend call for an end to the use of "excessive force" and the pursuit of "serious reform".
(19) But there the cultural connection ends: this spiny monster will house high-end accommodation for 500 students, mostly international, who will be able to peek out from their luxury lair through mean, arrow-slit windows.
(20) Rather like a James Bond villain addressing the world from his lair, the billionaire spoke to camera via the internet to "reveal" that he would offer $5m to sick children if President Obama produced his college records.