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

It sends an unintentional but unwelcoming message that encapsulates a bigger picture, in Matić's eyes.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

“Losing a parent is extremely tough. Losing both in the way I have has given me an incredibly unwelcoming feeling and a paranoia that I will have to overcome,” he wrote on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

The jaguar in the weaving glared at me, as unwelcoming now as it had been back then.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis