hospitably

Example Sentences

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His father was offered a job in California by a former co-worker, but when the family arrived on the West Coast after a nine-day drive, they were welcomed less than hospitably.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Although Miliband was seen as hospitably finding an "accent on common ground" in a generous act of extending familiarity.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2022

They stayed there weather-bound for three nights, most hospitably entertained.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

And, like Odysseus, Aeneas is dangerously distracted from his mission by a beautiful woman: Dido, the queen of the North African city of Carthage, where the hero has been welcomed hospitably after he is shipwrecked.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Turning the corner, Francie saw that both doors were hooked back hospitably and she imagined that the large, bland dial of the swinging scale blinked a welcome.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith