inhospitable

Example Sentences

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With her inquisitive eyes and lush, white tail, which she wraps around herself like a scarf, Rana is a friendly guide to an inhospitable world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Appreciate the variety of ways a planet might be, and how many of them are, cold, dry, sterile, baked, toxic, inhospitable, and, as far as we can tell, completely devoid of life.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Building on their findings, Kumawat and his colleagues now plan to cultivate these microorganisms in controlled incubators to learn more about how they obtain nutrients and persist in such inhospitable environments.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

California’s political landscape has been consistently inhospitable to wealthy candidates over the past five decades, with every fabulously rich political newcomer failing to win either the governorship or a U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

She had been serving the goddess thus for many years when a Greek galley put in at the inhospitable shore, not under stern necessity, storm-driven, but voluntarily.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton