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Inhospitable in a sentence

Inhospitable meaning

  1. Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
  2. Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.

Using Inhospitable

  • The main meaning on this page is: Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly. | Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.
  • Useful related words include: unfriendly, hospitable, water-washed, uncongenial.
  • In the example corpus, inhospitable often appears in combinations such as: an inhospitable, the inhospitable, and inhospitable.

Context around Inhospitable

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Inhospitable

  • In this selection, "inhospitable" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, desolate, increasingly, dire, environment, conditions and terrain stand out and add context to how "inhospitable" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a desolate inhospitable place and and a dire inhospitable environment wherein. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "inhospitable" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, acacia and accrington, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with inhospitable

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Plants find a way to grow in the most inhospitable conditions. (11 words)

Life is love, and love is the land, and the land is inhospitable. (13 words)

The world continues to be an inhospitable place for most people like me. (13 words)

While it may not be outright the strongest weapon in terms of damage, speed, or maneuverability, the Rifle is sure to make every FPS player feel right at home, even in such an inhospitable environment as a cannibal-infested forest on a remote island. (44 words)

As recently as the 1970s, the Rainy River was unfit for any swimming and was inhospitable to fish, especially lake sturgeon, which were essentially extinct from the main river but hung on in a few cleaner tributaries. (37 words)

I'd signed up to journey 3,000 nautical miles from Punta del Este in Uruguay to Cape Town, crossing the inhospitable South Atlantic in a bid to add 'sailing' to my repertoire of adventuring exploits. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

In case you haven't seen this one yet, the game focuses on city building with a focus on resource management, the economy, and surviving despite the challenge of setting up in an inhospitable environment.

Life is love, and love is the land, and the land is inhospitable.

Plants find a way to grow in the most inhospitable conditions.

She is timid to the point of being inhospitable, but like Rocky, the oppression of her living circumstances economically and from the emotional abuse she receives from her brother Paulie () weighs against her.

Since the 1970s, the Moroccan monarchy has been fighting tooth and nail for a patch of desert, against unreasonable natives wanting self-determination, and against an inhospitable terrain.

Thanks to the few surviving Mandalorians that remained after the Great Purge, the planet once thought to be inhospitable is beginning to see its native fauna flourish.

The game’s environmental themes are front and center, with its portrayal of earth as a desolate, inhospitable place, and humans are cast as the greatest threat to the foxes’ survival.

The series revealed that during these final years of the Empire, Mandalore had been attacked and reduced to an inhospitable wasteland.

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The world continues to be an inhospitable place for most people like me.

He said, “We recognise that political partisanship and outright hostility have rendered many spaces and organisations within the broader Sydney cultural landscape increasingly inhospitable to Jewish audiences and artists over recent months.

Imagine a creature so small it can fit between the grains of sand on a beach with space to spare, yet so resilient that it can survive the inhospitable vacuum of space.

It’s a dire, inhospitable environment, wherein corporate interests can give way to ghoulish monstrosities, and those just trying to navigate the chokehold of capitalism are doing their best to survive.

More than 50 percent of the country wants to shape the republic, more and more, into something inhumane, inhospitable, destined for fascism and decline.

Scientists will venture into some of Earth's most inhospitable conditions to search for unprecedented findings.

The demand for a new lighthouse on the lake's inhospitable North Shore was hardly surprising.

While it may not be outright the strongest weapon in terms of damage, speed, or maneuverability, the Rifle is sure to make every FPS player feel right at home, even in such an inhospitable environment as a cannibal-infested forest on a remote island.

A real 4x4 is a prodigious feat of automotive engineering that ensures you can drive into the teeth of the most inhospitable environment on the planet and stay warm, dry and safe.

As recently as the 1970s, the Rainy River was unfit for any swimming and was inhospitable to fish, especially lake sturgeon, which were essentially extinct from the main river but hung on in a few cleaner tributaries.

Geology changes very frequently here due to natural challenges which include major earthquakes zones, extreme temperatures and inhospitable terrain making it very difficult to access the complete geology in advance.

I'd signed up to journey 3,000 nautical miles from Punta del Este in Uruguay to Cape Town, crossing the inhospitable South Atlantic in a bid to add 'sailing' to my repertoire of adventuring exploits.

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Common combinations with inhospitable

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "inhospitable" in a sentence?
An example: "In case you haven't seen this one yet, the game focuses on city building with a focus on resource management, the economy, and surviving despite the challenge of setting up in an inhospitable environment." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "inhospitable" from authentic English texts.
What does "inhospitable" mean?
Inhospitable means: Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
What are synonyms of "inhospitable"?
Common synonyms of "inhospitable" include: unfriendly, hospitable, water-washed, uncongenial, hostile, wild, waste, godforsaken. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "inhospitable" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "inhospitable", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.