How to Use hospitable in a Sentence

hospitable

adjective
  • It's a hearty plant that grows in even the least hospitable climates.
  • The people of that country are very hospitable.
  • The staff is highly hospitable on and off the greens.
    — Katie Sweeney, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Subglacial lakes may have been the most hospitable place for life.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Their catcher was not as hospitable.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • It can clearly be seen in the rear seat, where leg room is far more hospitable for adults.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But the city is not super hospitable to the artistic need to fail.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 18 June 2025
  • Being hospitable is one of my big things when people come to our home.
    — Sophia A. Nelson, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The waitstaff is super hospitable and the food is served up with a smile.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The whole staff has embraced the effort to be more hospitable.
    — Caralee Adams, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • There may be ways to make your backyard less hospitable to the squirrels.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Both of these gestures were hospitable and warm—like the man himself.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
  • And then these germs can find a hospitable niche and grow and cause infections.
    — Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Here are the ten best waffle towels to make your dwelling even more hospitable.
    — Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Pigs, chickens and ducks were also not very hospitable places for the virus.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Their approach relies on five things to make yards less hospitable.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • Is there a polite (and hospitable) way to ask him to put the vape away or to smoke on the deck?
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But when the weather isn’t as hospitable, the padded drop-top shuts out the world, noise and all.
    — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • The first batch of whales seen would show up to check which ones in the whaling crew would be more hospitable.
    — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Repair bare spots in the lawn to make your yard less hospitable for ground-nesting bees.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Repair bare spots in the lawn to make your yard less hospitable for ground-nesting bees.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This wasn’t a neighborhood that seemed hospitable to strangers.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • The home can be a private place as well as a place to be hospitable and personal.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • New York City isn’t always the most hospitable place to live.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 July 2022
  • To not even list a phone number seems the opposite of hospitable.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • But the people tasked with reviewing the project at its next step may not be as hospitable.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
  • At the same time, Selma has made Airbnb’s list of most hospitable cities.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The road, meanwhile, has not been hospitable to the B’s this season.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Not in an 18-team race that lacks a clear favorite and could prove hospitable for dark-horse teams.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • In recent years, Park City has been seen as a less-than-hospitable home.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025

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