How to Use unfriendly in a Sentence

unfriendly

adjective
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  • They were very unfriendly to us.
  • That drew some unfriendly noise from some in the crowd.
    — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
  • The fact that Mars is so unfriendly to at least this one type of life is very good news.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 July 2017
  • The propeller sits in back for the same reason—a prop in the front would be unfriendly to smooth flow.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The Hawks’ tiebreaker will be tough to overcome, but the Knicks’ schedule is so unfriendly that a good stretch by the Celtics could push them ahead.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
  • But the building could also feel unfriendly, and often, so did the page.
    — Curbed, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Mayfield still makes some high throws that inspire me to grab my bald head and speak in some strange/unfriendly tongues.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
  • That is, no doubt, in part the consequence of their location, for big cities tend to be unfriendly and pricey.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • The only thing that might be considered unfriendly is the cost.
    — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which gave him the power to jail unfriendly editors.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • If public transportation had to cut service for want of fares, the city would grow unfriendly to work.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Once on a bus in Paris, that city rumored to be unfriendly, my husband and I were going north instead of south.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Jefferson was stuffed on third- and fourth-down runs, although the Beavers appeared to get unfriendly spots on both runs.
    — Tim Booth, Star Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
  • They were sent to unfriendly committees and were never even placed on the agenda to get a hearing.
    — Ashley Belanger, Teen Vogue, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Three of the early favorites to win the Wanamaker Trophy all found the course unfriendly in their opening rounds.
    — USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • Unfriendly witnesses are inclined to string out their answers and let the clock run.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 16 June 2017
  • Fact is, Warren comes off as stern, abrasive and unfriendly.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The battleship and other unfriendly touches at the South branch, 3096 Scranton Road in Tremont, are gone.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • By the way, some parents have asked for guidance on the best way to talk to their children about our unfriendly environment.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • That's already rude, but what's worse is that after your unfriendly visitor fades, a dark spot pops up in its place.
    — ELLE, 22 July 2022
  • Those who know him have described him both as a happy guy who loved the U.S. and as someone who was unfriendly, who never said hello.
    — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The southern environment can seem unfriendly to the fruit in other ways, too.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Nobody tells you how unhelpful people can be, or how unfriendly the world can seem.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Some 61% said Beijing was unfriendly to the Taiwanese people.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But the map looks less unfriendly to the party than even the biggest Democratic optimists could have imagined a year ago.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The woman across the aisle gave Rosalie a look: quizzical, if not entirely unfriendly.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Organ Pipe, on the other hand, is a gorgeous square of desert with jagged cliffs and thorny cacti that can be unfriendly to anyone walking off trail.
    — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 9 May 2018
  • Up in the macrobiome, though, the ISS is demonstrably unfriendly to humans.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Most white people seemed harmless, if sometimes grumpy, unfriendly, or entitled.
    — Mohammed Hanif, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Office vacancy rates have soared to record highs, and San Francisco is increasingly seen as an unfriendly place for businesses to operate.
    — William E. Oberndorf, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024

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