How to Use unfriendly in a Sentence

unfriendly

adjective

• They were very unfriendly to us.
• That drew some unfriendly noise from some in the crowd.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• The fact that Mars is so unfriendly to at least this one type of life is very good news.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 July 2017
• The propeller sits in back for the same reason—a prop in the front would be unfriendly to smooth flow.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2020
• The Hawks’ tiebreaker will be tough to overcome, but the Knicks’ schedule is so unfriendly that a good stretch by the Celtics could push them ahead.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
• But the building could also feel unfriendly, and often, so did the page.
  — Curbed, 13 Dec. 2023
• Mayfield still makes some high throws that inspire me to grab my bald head and speak in some strange/unfriendly tongues.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
• That is, no doubt, in part the consequence of their location, for big cities tend to be unfriendly and pricey.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The only thing that might be considered unfriendly is the cost.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 13 Sep. 2022
• Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which gave him the power to jail unfriendly editors.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• If public transportation had to cut service for want of fares, the city would grow unfriendly to work.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Once on a bus in Paris, that city rumored to be unfriendly, my husband and I were going north instead of south.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2021
• Jefferson was stuffed on third- and fourth-down runs, although the Beavers appeared to get unfriendly spots on both runs.
  — Tim Booth, Star Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
• They were sent to unfriendly committees and were never even placed on the agenda to get a hearing.
  — Ashley Belanger, Teen Vogue, 16 Feb. 2018
• Three of the early favorites to win the Wanamaker Trophy all found the course unfriendly in their opening rounds.
  — USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• Unfriendly witnesses are inclined to string out their answers and let the clock run.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 16 June 2017
• Fact is, Warren comes off as stern, abrasive and unfriendly.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
• The battleship and other unfriendly touches at the South branch, 3096 Scranton Road in Tremont, are gone.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• By the way, some parents have asked for guidance on the best way to talk to their children about our unfriendly environment.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• That's already rude, but what's worse is that after your unfriendly visitor fades, a dark spot pops up in its place.
  — ELLE, 22 July 2022
• Those who know him have described him both as a happy guy who loved the U.S. and as someone who was unfriendly, who never said hello.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• The southern environment can seem unfriendly to the fruit in other ways, too.
  — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
• Nobody tells you how unhelpful people can be, or how unfriendly the world can seem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• Some 61% said Beijing was unfriendly to the Taiwanese people.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• But the map looks less unfriendly to the party than even the biggest Democratic optimists could have imagined a year ago.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
• The woman across the aisle gave Rosalie a look: quizzical, if not entirely unfriendly.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Organ Pipe, on the other hand, is a gorgeous square of desert with jagged cliffs and thorny cacti that can be unfriendly to anyone walking off trail.
  — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 9 May 2018
• Up in the macrobiome, though, the ISS is demonstrably unfriendly to humans.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 5 Apr. 2021
• After reporting the incident to the production manager, Depardieu was asked to apologize to her but instead made unfriendly remarks about her during the rest of the shoot.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
• Trump's appearance also highlighted a key talking point, the assumption that Harris is unwilling to do interviews to discuss her record with unfriendly media.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024