Sentence examples for be inhospitable to from inspiring English sources

It is also a place where temperature swings are extreme, which means it should be inhospitable to a volatile compound like water.

The trunk has no branches and so would be inhospitable to the other black bronze work in Veterans Memorial Park: "Gorilla," by Daisy Youngblood.

For the very elements of the city that make it seem as if it would be inhospitable to fig trees, the brick and concrete that define New York, actually help the trees thrive in cold weather.

But Paris can be inhospitable to joggers, partly for the same reasons that I and about 30 million annual tourists love it: big cobblestones, narrow cafe-lined sidewalks and urban planning that in many places thankfully prioritized historic preservation.

And yet they occcupy a temperate middle region often thought to be inhospitable to the imagination, which thrives (as Lowell's, Plath's, and Berryman's did) at the poles: burning and freezing, loving and hating, torn between Shakespeare's "comfort and despair".

But it does argue that areas with high and rising levels of homeownership are more likely to be inhospitable to innovation and job creation and to have less labor mobility and longer commutes to work.

The spirit of conservatism, properly understood, is inhospitable to fanaticism.

It's inhospitable to their external landscape, too.

The Moon's surface is inhospitable to life of any sort.

Much of its waterless expanse is inhospitable to plant and animal life.

Their culture is inhospitable to certain liberal ideals, like pluralism, individualism and democracy.