HABITATION in a Sentence

Learn HABITATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
265 example sentences for HABITATION, such as:
1. It is not easy to break off a bad habit.
2. Washing up before dinner is a good habit.
3. Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
4. Regular exercise is a good habit for kids to develop.
5. I'm trying to break the habit of staying up too late.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HABITATION
habitation
 n.  the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
 n.  housing that someone is living in
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As soon as morning dawned I crept from my kennel, that I might view the adjacent cottage and discover if I could remain in the habitation I had found.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
5  On the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  Then, however, there was the freshness of the passing year on its exterior, and the cheerfulness, gleaming forth from the sunny windows, of a human habitation, into which death had never entered.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
7  Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
8  Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habitation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, without the risk of being plundered and burnt before the next morning.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  When Ivanhoe reached the habitation of Isaac, he was still in a state of unconsciousness, owing to the profuse loss of blood which had taken place during his exertions in the lists.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  Eustacia, though living within two miles of the place, had never seen the interior of this quaint old habitation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
11  As I approached the hut, walking as warily as Stapleton would do when with poised net he drew near the settled butterfly, I satisfied myself that the place had indeed been used as a habitation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
12  Herself she speeds through the sky to Paphos, and joyfully revisits her habitation, where the temple and its hundred altars steam with Sabaean incense, and are fresh with fragrance of chaplets in her worship.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
13  Him will I hide deep asleep in my holy habitation, high on Cythera's hills or in Idalium, that he may not know nor cross our wiles.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
14  And to her the hero thus made brief reply: 'None hath a fixed dwelling; we live in the shady woodlands; soft-swelling banks and meadows fresh with streams are our habitation.'
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
15  We were speaking of a suitable habitation for the Count of Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.
2  I don't long for luxurious life and gorgeous appearance , but I need a complete in habitation for sentiment.
3  After his divorce he reverted to his old habit of drinking.
4  Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time.
5  Love is an art of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
6  We strongly advise you to rid yourself of the bad habit of smoking.
7  I've got into the habit of turning on the TV as soon as I get home.
8  I'm trying to break the habit of staying up too late.
9  It is not easy to break off a bad habit.
10  Regular exercise is a good habit for kids to develop.
11  Washing up before dinner is a good habit.
12  Unable to defeat him by logical discussion, she fell back on her old habit of criticizing his speech.
13  Advertising is a potent force in showing smoking as a socially acceptable habit.
14  Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
15  We've fallen into the habit of getting up late on Saturday mornings.