Sentence examples for present inhabitant from inspiring English sources

Try to imagine the present inhabitant of that office being left so far out of the loop.

Flanking the photographs are samplings of art by past and present inhabitants.

The present inhabitants are predominantly Mongoloid stock with some admixture of southern blood, probably Malay.

The ancestors of the present inhabitants of central and northern Europe obtained their edible fats almost exclusively from domestic animals.

Sugarcane plantations, worked by black slaves (ancestors of most of the present inhabitants), were important for a time but declined in the 19th century.

Some of its respectable present inhabitants had suggested changing its name to Good Boys Street or even Chartron Street, the name it bore before the 13th century.

The first section of Nancy Campbell's Disko Bay (Enitharmon, £9.99) evokes the difficulty of life for Greenland's first settlers as well as its present inhabitants; Campbell's versions of three Qavak songs are as violent as they are sexual.

"It seems likely," the scientists wrote, "that the present inhabitants of the Sinai, the Bedouins, would have optimised their solutions for desert survival during their long tenure in this desert.

How are the statues linked to the present inhabitants of the island?" Along with excavation of the moai, the Routledges hoped to find more kohau rongorongo ("talking wood"): wooden tablets covered with inscriptions.

Many of the present inhabitants are descendants of Maya who rebelled during the Caste War (an indigenous uprising in the Yucatán in 1847 53) and were not conquered again until the early 20th century.

But in the Origin Darwin also expanded the idea of family, away from the human only, away from what he called the exclusiveness of "pedigrees and armorial bearings", to embrace all "the past and present inhabitants of the world" - and by "inhabitant" he did not mean simply the human.