How to Use inhospitable in a Sentence

inhospitable

adjective
  • It's very inhospitable of him to be so rude to strangers.
  • These are dusty, arid lands, more craggy than lush, and in some ways inhospitable.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Why is Texas so inhospitable to Democrats?
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Make your home an inhospitable place for mice by keeping it squeaky clean for yourself.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Thyme thrives in dry, rocky soils that may be inhospitable to other common plants.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no landform on Earth that’s as inhospitable as space.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Wide-open ground without things like brush piles is inhospitable to rabbits.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
  • These habitats are scarce and spaced out between inhospitable dry rocks.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
  • That forest today just so happens to be in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2019
  • Flamingos are flocking to a place inhospitable to humans to start their search for mates.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The squash was among the few foods that sustained them during the long and inhospitable winters.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There’s many ways that a sky can be made inhospitable to intruding aircraft.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • This was a tall task in an inhospitable setting, and New York made a game of it.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • This is where Earth’s most remote and inhospitable regions come in handy.
    — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Winter is setting in, and the desert is getting even more inhospitable.
    — Dara Lind, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Each one tells a story of just how crazy this race is and how inhospitable the Saudi desert can be.
    — New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And Aldabra, one of the world’s largest coral atolls, is quite inhospitable to visitors.
    — Ngm Maps, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • To feel a sense of belonging in a world that, too often, is inhospitable and cruel.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Since the desert is so inhospitable and dry, grasses need to hog as much water as possible to live.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 18 Jan. 2017
  • With such massive swaths of the planet covered in ice, the world became harsh and inhospitable.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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 nothing like sitting with the wrong company to make the city feel inhospitable.
    — Jessica Brown, Longreads, 18 July 2017
  • 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
  • And in those moments, Kansas City can be an inhospitable place.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
  • And in those moments, Kansas City can be an inhospitable place.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In between was an inhospitable and mostly unmapped desert.
    — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Inside your home, make the space inhospitable for carpenter ants to survive.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2026
  • The far side of the moon, the term most scientists prefer, is indeed dark (half the time), cold, and inhospitable.
    — Harry Goldstein, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The father and son walk through their inhospitable world dressed like the Christ child, in swaddling clothes, with no place to lay their heads.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025

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