Habitation

//ˌhæb.ɪˈtæɪ.ʃən//

"Habitation" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Certain industries advocated creating megastructures in space for habitation with artificial gravity.

Autonomous machines will someday be deployed to the Moon, Mars or beyond to construct shelters for human habitation.

In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Some desert areas in Algeria are completely unfit for human habitation.

In vain she scanned the deeply gored valley that lay before her and the timbered slopes of the mountains for sign of human habitation.

This house was declared unfit for human habitation.

And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places.

Witness this new-made world, another Heaven From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with stars Numerous, and every star perhaps a world Of destined habitation […]

The few miserable hovels that shewed some marks of human habitation, were now of still rarer occurrence; and, at length, as we began to ascend a huge and uninterrupted swell of moorland, they totally disappeared.

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Now, however, the windows in the houses began one by one to be lit up, giving a greater sense of habitation and humanity.

And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Mrs Deborah, having disposed of the child according to the will of her master, now prepared to visit those habitations which were supposed to conceal its mother.

How gay the Habitations that adorn This fertile Valley! Not a House but seems To give assurance of content within;

And this is Shanty Town, my friend. ¶ Even here the children laugh in the narrow lanes that run between these tragic habitations.

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