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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And a big part of creating a habitable base is making sure the heating and cooling systems work.
    — Issam Mudawar, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The county intends to visit every farm within the next few months and wants to work with the owners to make the unlivable units habitable.
    — Ray Chavez, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Broderick said the apartment was still habitable, and the man was allowed back to his living space later that day.
    — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • To make up for that, the House converted storage space across the hall from the fifth floor offices into semi-habitable locales.
    — Chad Pergram | Fox News, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The mission teams are more focused on ensuring the ISS remains safe and habitable, and aren’t as concerned about the ferries between space and the ground.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Sealed underground lava tubes on the moon and Mars might be useful spots to build habitable space structures.
    — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The team’s idea is to search for nearby habitable planets by changing up the centuries-old design for telescopes.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Future missions could reveal if ocean worlds are habitable, and if so, what kind of life could exist below the ice.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • Three of those planets are Earth-size rocks orbiting in the habitable zone, where water could exist on the surface.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2022
  • The exoplanet is a gas giant in a close orbit around its star, which means it's not thought to be a habitable place that can support alien life.
    — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But the rest—the frequency of habitable planets, as well as the origins and evolution of life upon them—were filled with unknowns.
    — Yuri Milner, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2022
  • That leaves a number of them in what's called the habitable zone, the area at which the heat delivered by the star could allow liquid water to exist on the planet's surface.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But a successful base – along with the spacecraft that will carry people to it – must be habitable for humans.
    — Issam Mudawar, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As far as its neighbors go, Proxima d is too close to the star to be in the habitable zone, and Proxima c, which takes about five years to orbit the star, is too distant.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Would Kaltenegger confirm that the planets might be habitable?
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Chevrolet also managed to package a flat floor in the rear, making the middle seat habitable for shorter trips.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 2 May 2023

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