How to Use inhospitable in a Sentence

inhospitable

adjective
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  • It's very inhospitable of him to be so rude to strangers.
  • The point gets made, again and again, that the 1940s were inhospitable to difference of all kinds.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The squash was among the few foods that sustained them during the long and inhospitable winters.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2020
  • And Aldabra, one of the world’s largest coral atolls, is quite inhospitable to visitors.
    — Ngm Maps, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • But the market for these banks might be too inhospitable.
    — David Hammer, NOLA.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The best approach, then, is one of the simplest: Make your home inhospitable to rodents.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
  • It’s a barren and inhospitable rock plopped in a frigid channel in the Arctic.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • At the time, the wealthy beachside resort town was known for being inhospitable to Jews.
    — Shira Hanau, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • That forest today just so happens to be in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2019
  • There’s no landform on Earth that’s as inhospitable as space.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
  • With such massive swaths of the planet covered in ice, the world became harsh and inhospitable.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The jagged terrain is so inhospitable to vehicles that the trains were halted so fire crews could drive on the tracks to get closer to the fire.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2021
  • Flamingos are flocking to a place inhospitable to humans to start their search for mates.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Mars is an entirely inhospitable world in a lot of ways.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • These daredevils thrive in the world’s most isolated, inhospitable places, such as the rocky ranges of the Andes and the Himalayas.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • To feel a sense of belonging in a world that, too often, is inhospitable and cruel.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Winter is setting in, and the desert is getting even more inhospitable.
    — Dara Lind, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Much like the moon, there are parts of Mars that would make the already freezing planet inhospitable to astronauts -- like the poles.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Try the South Orkney islands, a wildly inhospitable chain 375 miles off the coast of Antarctica.
    — David Ferry, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2019
  • And in those moments, Kansas City can be an inhospitable place.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Deaths have increased as migrants are pushed to more remote crossings that are more arid and inhospitable by the day.
    — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
  • The frontier cuts through inhospitable deserts, traces the zigzag of the Rio Grande and slices between sister cities in the two countries, where downtown streets are a few feet apart.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Wide-open ground without things like brush piles is inhospitable to rabbits.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
  • As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce trees are now spreading into tundra that was once inhospitable.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In grieving parts of himself long-lost to inhospitable environs, Michael’s on the brink.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Here’s the key: After an eventful, if inhospitable first day in London, Ted calls his wife and son back in Kansas.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The trees dot a moon-like landscape that is inhospitable to most other plant life, a testament to the toughness and resilience of the bristlecone pines.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • This isn't the first study to find that some marine species are shifting their ranges into inhospitable habitats.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Today, Mars is seen as being so inhospitable to life that anyone who found a patch of lichen on the planet would be a shoe-in for a Nobel Prize.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Still, New Mexico’s farmers manage to will bounty out of a seemingly inhospitable land.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024

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