unwelcoming
Example Sentences
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It can be reclusive and even unwelcoming, but it can’t attack its neighbors, blockade international waters, or export extremism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
“Nothing is more unwelcoming than a fence around a public space,” one critic said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
But for students like Lucy—and for Jack and Harper, who’d already felt unsafe long before the shooting—those gestures couldn’t reach the part of campus that still felt unwelcoming.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
Yet a few games this year are embracing accessibility, carving a niche from the bones of a hitherto unwelcoming landscape.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
It was cedar, and lilac and decay, something unwelcoming that had been mostly blocked when the door was closed but now seeped out into the warm air of the close space.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
