How To Use Habitable In A Sentence

  • First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again, The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
  • The hallmark of Earth, after all, is not its mass, nor its rockiness, nor the fact that it is potentially habitable. How Long Until We Find a Second Earth? | Disinformation
  • But if we had cheap loans, people could afford to make homes habitable and the rent would cover the loan. Times, Sunday Times
  • The themes begin with discovery, exploration and survival in the last habitable landmass discovered by humans.
  • Terraforming, or altering the atmosphere of Mars to make it habitable for humans, via planetary engineering processes, is still being discussed in planetary circles and is the seed to more current discussions of planetary or geo-engineering to reduce the impacts of global warming on our planet. Mel Averner - NASA Watch
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  • Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of faeces produced by herbivores. MicrobiologyBytes
  • As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
  • —To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. II. Uniformity Of Change
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • And so we might name regions by the score that are practically unhabitable, which nevertheless produce things necessary to civilized man. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
  • It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
  • This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
  • The innermost planet is most probably rocky, while the outermost is the first Neptune-mass planet to reside in the habitable zone. May 17th, 2006
  • The place is perfectly habitable, but there is work to be done. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the outer parts of the town there was a greater number of cabins completely unroofed and rendered uninhabitable.
  • The inhabitable areas of New Ireland are comparatively small and confined to the temperate-zone areas adjacent to the single major sea. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
  • The barn then needs a further £75,000 to £100,000 spending on it to make it habitable.
  • From what is here stated, it must be obvious, that no more appropriate name than that of "Fenian" could be given to the organization which now holds the destiny of Ireland in its hands, and which has ramified itself throughout almost every portion of the habitable globe. Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada
  • Many inner cities that were once treated as war zones have become pleasant and habitable again.
  • The team then looked at the impact that would have had on the Earth’s temperature in the so-called geophysical habitable zone – a zone representing the top 2.5 miles of the Earth’s crust. Bombardment Of Asteroids Helped Life Thrive On Earth 4 Billion Years Ago | Impact Lab
  • It's been obvious, since my return, that the collared doves have given up any attempt to make the high-rise golden cypress habitable.
  • If they got running water to all these buildings that are obviously inhabitable, they could get the city cleaned up a lot faster.
  • The state includes the island of Grenada (120 sq mi/311 sq km) and the southern half of the archipelago known as the Grenadines, a group of largely uninhabitable small islands and islets north of Grenada in the Windward Islands. Grenada
  • Then the place was habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Marcy, who is a member of the Kepler science team, said the orbiting telescope will survey thousands of stars to determine with unprecedented precision how many are circled by exoplanets, and especially by Earth-size exoplanets that might be in habitable zones. Scientists estimate tens of billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way
  • The agent estimates it would cost up to £100,000 to make it habitable.
  • In fact, it is this effect that is responsible for making our planet habitable. Fire and Ice - the Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Depletion, and Nuclear Winter
  • We may well be living in a habitable portion of an infinite and random universe whose initial state obeyed no laws of Nature at all.
  • Despite their efforts and curses, the winds and the rogue waves wash them past any seemingly habitable islands.
  • He wrote a letter on the subject to the _Chanticleer_, a newspaper in Troy, Ill., of which he was a correspondent, and it was copied, with zinco-type illustrations, into all the journals of the habitable globe, and came back to England like the fabled boomerang. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893
  • But Marcy said that with so many Earth-size planets now expected to be orbiting distant suns - something on the order of 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 across the universe - the likelihood is high that many are in "habitable zones" where life can theoretically exist. Scientists estimate tens of billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way
  • So I'm on my own in the cottage, in the freezing cold (no central heating and windows open all day) and with the main living area uninhabitable.
  • Tower of Babel, to follow the dispersion of Mankind over the whole habitable and habilable globe. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
  • “The inclination of the axis of the earth is so duly proportionated for the making it as habitable as it can be, that the wit of man cannot imagine any posture better” (p. 162). COSMIC FALL
  • Indeed, that may be one of the ways of making the nation habitable.
  • I'd like to point out that there is an associated problem: mooring of houseboats in marinas that have habitable buildings located close to the boat slips.
  • The house itself was built around 1750AD and the Friars of the Corpus Friary lived there after the Friary itself became inhabitable.
  • What intelligence analysts think is more likely is what's called fissile or a dirty bomb, which would using radioactive material that would not create a nuclear explosion, but there would be a explosion that would spread radioactivity over an area and make it uninhabitable for several years. CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2001
  • It's a gigantic ball of fire which supposedly warms the Earth enough to make it habitable for life.
  • A lot of improvements would have to be made before the building was habitable.
  • Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
  • Why do dogs do the squashiest, most unpleasant turds that hide in the grass and spread themselves in the indentations on the bottom of your shoe, but don't start smelling until you get indoors and then render the place uninhabitable until you've left every window open for a month? WordPress.com News
  • The effects are that few habitable parts of our planet have the same landscape now as before man wielded the knife. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
  • Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
  • The poet seems to be experiencing a kind of existential crisis in a hostile, opaque, impenetrable and uninhabitable world.
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • Disrupting the pavement also allows sand dunes to drift into habitable areas.
  • About two thirds of the buildings in the town are estimated to have suffered notable damage, with as much as half being uninhabitable or providing unsafe and unsanitary living conditions only.
  • There's still the matter of terraforming the planet etc., but Mars is looking increasingly viable as an inhabitable planet.
  • Because at present my pad is, as you'll recall, uninhabitable. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Like mom sez, how do y'know you don't like uninhabitable frozen wastelands if you've never tried 'em?
  • A lot of improvements would have to be made before the building was habitable.
  • Butler and Vogt said the likelihood of finding many more planets in habitable zones has greatly increased because of where this first one was found and how long it took to find it. First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system
  • This country is basically uninhabitable and extremely inhospitable with the exception of the coastline.
  • There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth.
  • However, other than not having the protective/decorative gates and the double garage door, the only room that isn't habitable is the livingroom. New Construction?
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • If a missile makes a hole in the building's wall, but the basement and one room are intact - is this called inhabitable or not? alan_tskhurbaev: South Ossetia: Tskhinvali Photos and Reports
  • Except for the stench of epoxy, the tunnel was a lot more habitable and infinitely safer. CORMORANT
  • After finding lost cities and travelling across uninhabitable parts of the globe, intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is coming to give a speech in Bolton.
  • An occupational licence is one that deems a property habitable.
  • For, if our world is to remain habitable for humankind, nothing else is important enough to divert our attention from this growing problem.
  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Centaurs on a planet fight for survival when their sun comes too close to their planet making it unhabitable. Reviews of the 1975 Do-Over Project: A Klausnerian Effort
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • Bangladesh becomes nearly uninhabitable because of a rising sea level, which contaminates the inland water supplies.
  • The question about terraforming and FTL is answered in movie -- the whole verse is one solar system where every single planet and moon has been terraformed -- rendered habitable by artificial means. Is Firefly Good Sci-Fi?
  • The special conditions of the tundra make it barely habitable for humans. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the fall of Rome even to the present day, this phenomenon has been manifested in a very evident manner in the Roman Campagna, in certain parts of which, even up to the time of the Renaissance, it was possible to maintain pleasure houses, but which are now unhabitable during the hot season. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
  • Getting the house back in habitable condition means a coal fire and central heating are at full blast 24 hours a day.
  • Within the next 20 years we could have discovered dozens of habitable planets. The Sun
  • Maybe such a universe is uninhabitable, unsustainable to human perception.
  • Further considerations include whether all or parts of the property could be habitable or lettable while work is under way. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Middle East was largely unhabitable, following the limited nuclear war that had annihilated both Israel and its Arab neighbors; India was slowly dying from the radioactive fallout from that exchange. A King of Infinite Space
  • The only line I can draw between the two is the idea of beaming consciousness and control into a separate being to inhabit an otherwise uninhabitable planet. Is James Cameron’s Avatar Actually an Uncredited Rewrite of a 1957 Poul Anderson Story? | /Film
  • The habitable qualities of the nests of well-furnished chambers are excellent, with very large supplies of food, drink, and tobacco. Times, Sunday Times
  • The huanaco, happily for it, exists in a barren, desolate region, in its greatest part waterless and uninhabitable to human beings; and the chapter-heading refers to a singular instinct of the dying animals, in very many cases allowed, by the exceptional conditions in which they are placed, to die naturally. The Naturalist in La Plata
  • It's very much a visioning document, what we need to be if we're actually going to maintain a habitable planet for seven, eight, nine, ten billion people.
  • Fifty homes were declared uninhabitable.
  • His cabin is uninhabitable in summer, let alone in winter.
  • But you can do a project as you go along, spending a bit to make a chunk habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate that it may no longer be habitable.
  • At first it was thought that a location so high above sea level would be unhabitable, but the immense wealth of the silver lodes required many workmen for their development, and these laborers had to be housed and fed. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
  • Probably 50,000 just to make it habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now by daylight they could see that it was rocky and barren, uninhabitable. THREE IN ONE
  • More recently, Mars has been featured on film as a volatile future colony in Total Recall and a bizarrely inhabitable terrain in Red Planet.
  • He and his two sons moved into a local inn while the house was made habitable. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
  • Everyone told her not to buy it, saying it could cost anything up to 7 million to make it habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was horrified, and mourned the loss of its tiny webbed feet, but perhaps she just hastened its departure from a world no longer habitable for amphibious life forms.
  • Many residents of the settlement strive to make their dwellings habitable.
  • Householders and businesses suffered months of heartache and misery as they battled to clear up the mess and make their premises habitable again.
  • The borough building inspector declared the home uninhabitable.
  • Cyberspace is thus more like science-fictional hyperspace, existing purely to enable very fast point-to-point links, rather than being a habitable space in its own right.
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • The jet of radiation is pummelling a small nearby galaxy, damaging any planets in its path and probably destroying life on any that are habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nevertheless, as I said before, the cold cannot be so intolerable under the latitude of 46, 47, and 48, especial within land, that it should be unhabitable, as some do suppose, seeing also there are very many people more to the north by a great deal. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
  • We are at best forty hours away from anything in habitable space, travelling at speed. 365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • He spent the next hour trying to invalidate the insurance cover by insisting the house wasn't fit or habitable to be a residence principale. WHITE LIES
  • Mars could very easily have evolved the complex chemistry that is necessary to be a habitable environment. Times, Sunday Times
  • From here, a telescope would show Earth as an uninhabited and uninhabitable world of water, with a few islands here and there.
  • The selling agent advises that it needs at least 100,000 spent on it to make it habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • He spent the next hour trying to invalidate the insurance cover by insisting the house wasn't fit or habitable to be a residence principale. WHITE LIES
  • Lenox, at that time, was as little known as Mount Desert; it was not until long afterwards that fashion found them out and made them uninhabitable to any but fashionable folks. Hawthorne and His Circle
  • There is a big difference between a planet being habitable and it being inhabited. Times, Sunday Times
  • But very few now doubt that Earth-size and Earth-like exoplanets in habitable zones will be found in the months and years ahead. Scientists estimate tens of billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way
  • The council moved her to a threebedroom property but she found it barely habitable. The Sun
  • It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
  • If any homes are judged to have been left completely uninhabitable by the floods insurers are likely to face further claims for the cost of temporary accommodation.
  • The tensile skin is designed to create more dynamic inhabitable spaces for the users in addition to providing building enclosure.
  • The lowlands were the only habitable land areas and were occupied in the first decade or two of settlement. Land tenure and management in the boreal region
  • The habitable or "Goldilocks zone", as it is sometimes called, because it's neither too hot nor too cold, occupies a narrow band of our own solar system of less than 1% of the distance from the sun to the outer edges.
  • Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
  • A working party from the church is labouring to make the top two floors of this house habitable for James and Lis to live in.
  • Egypt's cultivatable and inhabitable land makes up a tiny percentage of its total land surface. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • New Orleans, for now, is uninhabitable, but the outlook is also bleak.
  • Two years ago the council blocked the demolition of a 100-year-old, uninhabitable shotgun cottage.
  • Satellites and small space stations orbited the planet, along with three moons, one of which was covered in domes and crossed with covered roads to make it somewhat habitable.
  • The appellant asserts that the building was uninhabitable when he moved in, and that to return it to that state would be a retrograde step.
  • The effects are that few habitable parts of our planet have the same landscape now as before man wielded the knife. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • It is highly unlikely that the island will become habitable for overnight tourists in the near future. Smithsonian Mag
  • You could cull some duds in advance by calculating whether the planet was in the habitable zone - the proper distance from its sun for water to be liquid.
  • Master Thorne, in the sixteenth century, expressed the resolute spirit of that energy in a phrase: "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea innavigable"; and in every part of the globe this British spirit has applied itself to many a land that looked hopeless at first, and has frequently found it to be one: Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
  • Now, the chemical that made Florida inhabitable and eliminated malaria from Central America is not used to save a million lives a year in Africa because of false liberal fears masquerading as science. Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming
  • Aft of the habitable part of the airship was the magazine of explosives, coming near the middle of its length. The War in the Air
  • The channels seem inhabitable if not for the threadbare mattresses and some out-of-place artwork on the walls. Las Vegas Author Matt O'Brien Exposes Plight Of Underground Homeless
  • This move is one step in Shanghai's blueprint for becoming a world-class city which is more habitable for its residents.
  • Some buyers carry out restoration in stages, making part of the house habitable and completing the rest of the job as and when time and money allow.
  • Synthetic greenhouse gases could be used to make Mars habitable.
  • If a piece of space-junk or a meteoroid were to strike the ISS and make it unhabitable, taking a shuttle out of retirement on a mission to repair and reinhabit would make us international heroes. Downplaying Internal Doubts About Ares - NASA Watch
  • So, inverting the condition of the city clerk in the days when London was scarce inhabitable because of the coaly foulness of its air, the labourers now came hurrying by road or air to the city and its life and delights at night to leave it again in the morning. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • These painted a depressing picture of a world assailed by floods and wars, with a shrinking number of habitable places. Times, Sunday Times
  • The building was designed as a curved inhabitable land wave that fluently blends into the surrounding terrain and symmetrically follows the exact North-South axes.
  • ’Why are we so invested in shoving all these young girls and women into the pipeline that is dark and dingy and not very habitable? taken from, Why we leave
  • The long-term impact could be to make Earth uninhabitable to humans.
  • Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Swann's Way
  • The effects are that few habitable parts of our planet have the same landscape now as before man wielded the knife. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
  • Of these, about one-third are beautiful but virtually uninhabitable except by a few sheep-farmers, hoteliers and gamekeepers.
  • From the beasts of prey and the cannibal humans down to the death-dealing microbes, no quarter is given; and daily, wider and wider areas of hostile territory, whether of a warring desert-tribe in Africa or a pestilential fever-hole like Panama, are made peaceable and habitable for mankind. THE HUMAN DRIFT
  • That we live in a habitable universe of course is a selection effect.
  • She said in court papers that she had been constructively evicted because water leaks and mould contamination made the apartment uninhabitable.
  • 1Although inhospitable, the Cedarberg is far from uninhabitable or innavigable. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
  • They are ‘just a fish’ in the same sense that Earth is just a finite ship sailing a sea of uninhabitable space.
  • The submarine has two separate pressure hulls with a diameter of 7.2 m each, five inner habitable hulls and 19 compartments.
  • This was a perfectly nice Polish neighborhood before you guys decided to move in, open up your hip bars, and generally make the area more inhabitable for the Yuppies.
  • He spent the next hour trying to invalidate the insurance cover by insisting the house wasn't fit or habitable to be a residence principale. WHITE LIES
  • They stripped out the plumbing and heating so it was uninhabitable and could therefore be demolished for access. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was necessary to make habitable remote regions of Russia where it was regarded as too costly to provide waged labour.
  • The effects are that few habitable parts of our planet have the same landscape now as before man wielded the knife. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
  • Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
  • Otherwise, the place is perfectly habitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many houses were so badly damaged in the war that they were made permanently uninhabitable.
  • She was left with a dangerous house and the ruinous expense of making it habitable.
  • But today we do so without risk of being immolated, and with the newfound knowledge that life is hardy, and that the habitable zone may be as large as the universe itself.
  • It's beautiful, but the house is unmodernised to the point of being uninhabitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Finally she came to the wild uninhabitable places.
  • If there's no roof then the house is uninhabitable.
  • -- To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • Please recommend that the US build a launch vehicle that has a high flight rate, designed-in robust reusability on the first stage, and a second stage that makes it to orbit to serve as habitable volume. Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch
  • Palestinians are being made refugees to this day, the bombing of homes, the gradual push of illegal housing projects, the ghetto wall dividing Palestinians from their land and Income and recently the unhumane blockade resulting in the area becoming an unhabitable place thus resulting in Palestinians having to flee to avoid the dire situation. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • There may well be more habitable moons than planets in the cosmos. Times, Sunday Times
  • When it comes to our ability to keep our planet habitable, air quality is the canary in the mineshaft. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is always so surprising to arrive at a populated town after travelling through such uninhabitable, wild terrain.
  • The star is also committed to spending at least 600,000 more just to make it habitable. The Sun
  • Although the terrain nowadays is so dry and wind-swept as to be almost uninhabitable, this area known as the Tarim Basin was once laced with rivers and dotted with oases hospitable enough for settlement. Latimes.com - News
  • She bought it in 2000 for about £235,000, when it was still heated by a back boiler and scarcely inhabitable by today's standards.
  • Now he is staying with friends, until his place is habitable once again.
  • The premise is that another habitable planet has been discovered and it seems to be a mirror image of Earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, it took 11 years of observing to tease out the presence of the habitable zone planet, a short time in astronomical terms. First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system
  • Many inner cities that were once treated as war zones have become pleasant and habitable again.
  • I made it a little more habitable by repairing the many holes in the mosquito net and adding coconut sheel candle holders, a veranda bench made of driftwood, some broken surfboard exterior decor and small sea shells TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • We have found five planets orbiting that star, and with our spectroscopes we found one within the star's habitable zone that has an atmosphere.
  • We can always move to another planet if this one becomes inhabitable. Callers against climate bill crash phone system
  • What with glass roofs and glass floors and electricity, indeed, the city of the future is likely to be much more easily 'policed' and patrolled, as well as incomparably more cheery and habitable, than the city of to-day. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
  • And yet every day one saw more distinctly that they were the pea in the thimblerig of life, the hub of a universe which, to the approbation of the majority they represented, they were fast making uninhabitable. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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  • Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
  • D. "I think we'd better donate them to Mrs. Devine; she has to render this flat habitable for the next tenant. THE THORN BIRDS
  • He scuttled off, gibbering with delight, to make it habitable.
  • No damning artwork to highlight the world's love of oil, rather an attempt to get officials from Perth and Kinross Council to repair his "inhabitable" house. British Blogs
  • Changing a planet to make it habitable - 'planetary engineering' or 'terraforming' - is theoretically possible but would take centuries. The Sun
  • But, even more pragmatically speaking, it just makes this area absolutely uninhabitable.
  • The appellant asserts that the building was uninhabitable when he moved in, and that to return it to that state would be a retrograde step.
  • We have tried to make it habitable. Christianity Today
  • Mr. Aholiah Luce, of the Purgatory Hollow section of Smyrna, stood at bay on the dirt-banking of his "castle," that is, a sagged-in old hulk of a house of which only the L was habitable. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
  • (_kî-a_) which we call the crust of the earth, while the hollow beneath this inhabitable crust was fancied as a bottomless pit or abyss (_ge_), in which dwelt many powers. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • Unlike other large population nations, we have a lot of room to grow because of 90% of our landmass is habitable. Matthew Yglesias » Immigration Deal
  • His cabin is uninhabitable in summer, let alone in winter.
  • All Central Africa and the great Southern or Antarctic continent was described as pathless desert -- "a land uninhabitable from the heat"; and the sources of the Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
  • This was accompanied by a substantial shrinking of habitable marine shelf area and draining of much of the epicontinental seas.
  • All the dramas we went through to make the place habitable have been forgotten and for us the house represents a real labour of love. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 7th went to the support trenches they had recently vacated, but the 41st divisional R. E's. had been busy upon them during our absence, and a few habitable bivvies had been made. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919
  • The area would have been too boggy to make flint tools and uninhabitable for humans so experts believe this means the carcass was butchered for meat.
  • Why do dogs do the squashiest, most unpleasant turds that hide in the grass and spread themselves in the indentations on the bottom of your shoe, but don't start smelling until you get indoors and then render the place uninhabitable until you've left every window open for a month? The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The term circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ) is used to describe a ring sized shape of the best places for the survival of life in a system. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth.
  • a sanctuary throughout the Ice Ages when much of the region was rendered uninhabitable due to hyperaridity," Rose said. FOXNews.com
  • Here Paul Leonard has taken that throwaway line and constructed one of the best alien cultures I've ever read around it; reminiscent a little of both the pentagonal creatures of At the Mountains of Madness (though a lot less evil) and David Brin's Alvin the Hoon, but faced with an imminent world-destroying tragedy - this is Venus of several billion years ago, still habitable though steadily deteriorating. March Books 40) [In Search of Lost Time #5] The Prisoner and The Fugitive
  • The windmill needs weatherproofing, rebuilding and re-capping to become habitable.
  • Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.

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