How to Use hospitable in a Sentence
hospitable
adjective- It's a hearty plant that grows in even the least hospitable climates.
- The people of that country are very hospitable.
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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 -
The waitstaff is super hospitable and the food is served up with a smile.
— Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021 -
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 -
The whole staff has embraced the effort to be more hospitable.
— Caralee Adams, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020 -
At the same time, Selma has made Airbnb’s list of most hospitable cities.
— William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 22 Sep. 2020 -
Subglacial lakes may have been the most hospitable place for life.
— Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020 -
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 -
Both of these gestures were hospitable and warm—like the man himself.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024 -
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 -
Not in an 18-team race that lacks a clear favorite and could prove hospitable for dark-horse teams.
— Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024 -
There may be ways to make your backyard less hospitable to the squirrels.
— Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 31 May 2022 -
The Bruins need to make the Rose Bowl less hospitable to visitors.
— Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021 -
Marie-Paule was hospitable and friendly and hugged us both.
— Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023 -
Pigs, chickens and ducks were also not very hospitable places for the virus.
— Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020 -
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 -
And then these germs can find a hospitable niche and grow and cause infections.
— Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024 -
All that has helped make HKEX more hospitable to the tech firms that exchanges covet.
— The Economist, 27 Aug. 2020 -
The home can be a private place as well as a place to be hospitable and personal.
— Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021 -
Here are the ten best waffle towels to make your dwelling even more hospitable.
— Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023 -
By those measures, Mecca will be one of the least hospitable places on Earth.
— Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 19 June 2024 -
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 -
And given their migratory movements and the fact that some regions of the world are more hospitable to birds than others, there are certain places that attract a greater variety of species than others and should be on bird-watchers’ must-visit lists.
— David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024 -
Calcium sulfate’s presence bolsters the theory that Neretva Vallis and Jezero Crater were once abundant in water and therefore hospitable to life.
— Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
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