How to Use inhospitable in a Sentence

inhospitable

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These habitats are scarce and spaced out between inhospitable dry rocks.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
• All of them have to land eventually, and Venus’s surface seems too inhospitable a place to make for a good reservoir.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
• There’s many ways that a sky can be made inhospitable to intruding aircraft.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
• The high-altitude route is one of the most spectacular — and inhospitable — on the planet.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024