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

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

Liahav Eitan told BBC News it was "not easy" for Israelis or Jews living there and it had become "pretty unwelcoming".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

Even though the Carutherses’ house was cold and unwelcoming, hearing Mama sing warmed the place a tiny bit.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland