INHOSPITABLE in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for INHOSPITABLE, such as:

1. I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
2. He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
3. The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.
4. They all preserve, however, the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery.
5. If you have men and women thrown together in inhospitable surroundings, you are going to get some sexual tension.

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 Meanings and Examples of INHOSPITABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inhospitable
 a.  not hospitable
 a.  unfavorable to life or growth
Classic Sentence:
1  Incensed at this preparation on the hermit's part for making good his inhospitable purpose, the knight struck the door so furiously with his foot, that posts as well as staples shook with violence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  When I thought of the heavy rains and looked at the gaping roof I understood how strong and immutable must be the purpose which had kept him in that inhospitable abode.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
3  And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
4  It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  I had asked him the question inhospitably enough, for I resented the sort of bright and gratified recognition that still shone in his face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
6  They all preserve, however, the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Example Sentence:
1  He trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
2  If you have men and women thrown together in inhospitable surroundings, you are going to get some sexual tension.
3  I'll have to cook them a meal or they'll think I'm inhospitable.
4  The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.
5  I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.