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

At the gym, located in Garden Grove, Hansen says they were met with unwelcoming and leering stares before entering the facility.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

But research conducted for TikTok this September, based on a small survey of 1,001 UK respondents aged 16 to 25, reported that 35% felt classical music could be "exclusive and unwelcoming".

From BBC • Nov. 26, 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

When I had first come, the city had been unwelcoming, even treacherous, but now I had found my place in it.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan