HOSPITALITY in a Sentence

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She welcomed them with all the native hospitality, as she would have opened her door to let the sunlight in.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOSPITALITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hospitality
 n.  act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When Mammy returned she would resume her lecture on Scarlett's breach of hospitality, and Scarlett felt that she could not endure prating about such a trivial matter when her heart was breaking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  But John Wilkes, famed throughout the state for his hospitality, really knew how to give a barbecue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  The words, hospitality and loyalty and honor, meant more to him than she did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  The old portraits on the walls had been dignified and gracious and had looked down upon guests with an air of mellowed hospitality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  Melanie was young but she had in her all the qualities this embattled remnant prized, poverty and pride in poverty, uncomplaining courage, gaiety, hospitality, kindness and, above all, loyalty to all the old traditions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
9  Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
11  Her enjoyment of her surroundings was, indeed, tinged by the unpleasant consideration that she was accepting the hospitality and courting the approval of people she had disdained under other conditions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
12  She had resolutely refused Gerty's offer of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
13  But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
14  The officers of the Norwegian church, he told us, had held a meeting and decided that the Norwegian graveyard could not extend its hospitality to Mr. Shimerda.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
15  She welcomed them with all the native hospitality, as she would have opened her door to let the sunlight in.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
Example Sentence: (164 in 11 pages)
16  The patient was transferred to another hospital.
17  She was taken to hospital with a broken arm and ribs.
18  A child is recovering in hospital after a serious attack by a stray dog.
19  He endowed a bed in a hospital.
20  Patients were being discharged from the hospital too early.
21  The hospital has to treat emergencies such as car accidents.
22  The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients.
23  The hospital provides free treatment to indigents.
24  He had to go to the hospital for treatment.
25  In hospital she'll be under observation all the time.
26  The man is in the hospital's intensive care unit.
27  Their baby is still in the hospital's neonatal unit.
28  She works in the maternity unit at the local hospital.
29  She was taken into hospital last week when her condition suddenly deteriorated.
30  Millions follow this hospital drama twice a week.