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

But at a local community hub Ian Gillies was concerned about the saltires, which he regarded as unwelcoming and divisive.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

“Otherwise, a decade from now, it’ll look desolate and unwelcoming with one house for every five lots.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

These barracks were as starkly unwelcoming as theirs.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen