Example Sentences

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Solastalgia speaks of a modern uncanny, in which a familiar place is rendered unrecognisable by climate change or corporate action: the home become suddenly unhomely around its inhabitants.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2016

Both shows present an unhomely vision of home, depicting it as a place of repressed longings and semi-functional objects.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2010

One of our 17th century poets has said, "Go where thou wilt . . . if thy soul is a stranger to thee, this whole world is unhomely."

From Time Magazine Archive

He would willingly raid into the Scottish lowlands; but his courage failed him at the border, and he regarded England as a perilous, unhomely land.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The failing light, the waning colour, the naked, unhomely, stony country through which I was travelling, threw me into some despondency.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew