How to Use hospitable in a Sentence

hospitable

adjective
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  • It's a hearty plant that grows in even the least hospitable climates.
  • The people of that country are very hospitable.
  • So what makes the top places on the Booking.com list so hospitable?
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Is there a polite (and hospitable) way to ask him to put the vape away or to smoke on the deck?
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • New York City isn’t always the most hospitable place to live.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 July 2022
  • For now, Threads seems to be hospitable to Sweeney’s attempts to track the movements of the world’s elite.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
  • And, of course, the mission will examine whether each of the orbs are hospitable for life.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, the warmer water flowing through the dam and downstream made the Grand Canyon more hospitable to bass.
    — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
  • It can clearly be seen in the rear seat, where leg room is far more hospitable for adults.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Since the soil at the zoo isn’t hospitable for the eggs, keepers moved them to the Reptile & Amphibian House.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • There may be ways to make your backyard less hospitable to the squirrels.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Marie-Paule was hospitable and friendly and hugged us both.
    — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
  • An antique blue, green, and brown tile backsplash is the source of the color scheme for this hospitable kitchen.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Here are the ten best waffle towels to make your dwelling even more hospitable.
    — Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • At the same time, as plant species march north thanks to a more hospitable climate, the Arctic is greening.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The cityscape has become a hospitable home to the pollinators.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 July 2023
  • The auction is just his latest effort to help those who are working to make the world a more hospitable place, now and in the long term.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But for the rest of most of our lives the hot months are likely to become less hospitable and more frightening.
    — Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022
  • By contrast, Democrats are hoping to make gains on less hospitable turf.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But most of them are talking about how hospitable this country is and the people of this country are.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • There’s even an old-school maître d', who’s hospitable and knows everything going on in the room.
    — Katie Chang, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • So Belarus is not going to be a very hospitable place for Prigozhin or the Wagner troops.
    — ABC News, 27 June 2023
  • The current era, at least on the national level, is even more hospitable to Palin’s style.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2022
  • While not hospitable to humans, there is an atmosphere on Mars and that means there is sound.
    — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Having a home that feels hospitable to friends and family is something most of us want.
    — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But the hotel’s rock-and-roll past isn’t lost to its hospitable present: The bar’s famously boozy martini is not a nightcap for the faint of heart.
    — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Somehow, life managed to form and find a foothold, persisting as the planet cooled and grew more hospitable.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
  • During these ancient times, the Arctic Circle was a warmer, more hospitable place for life.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Soil compaction, in its extreme form, gets rid of all these spaces, making the ground much less hospitable for plants.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 May 2022
  • Rose and Robin were lovers decades ago and Hazel is doing her best to be hospitable, though cracks are beginning to show in her demeanor.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022

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