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
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
She was given a record-high $1-million annual salary to be the first woman co-anchor of a network evening newscast, paired with Harry Reasoner, a crusty and unwelcoming veteran.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 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
She had much still to learn, and she knew a place where she could learn it, cold and difficult and unwelcoming as that place might be.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
