"inhospitable surroundings" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase whenever you want to describe a place that is unpleasant, unwelcoming, or dangerous. For example, "We ventured out to the old mine, but the inhospitable surroundings made us turn back."
In the background Michael Brook's melancholy score honors a survivalist spirit that draws comfort from inhospitable surroundings.
Some of them — hardy classics like Pac-Man and Tetris, and the minimalist Canabalt, which uses just a single button — remain vibrant even in these inhospitable surroundings.
He sings of his inhospitable surroundings, of snow and stone and crows and cold moons, interspersing these images with a few warm memories of blouses and blood and brassières.
"As a result mushrooms are able to disperse their spores, even in the most inhospitable surroundings," says Dressaire, who presented her findings last week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Pittsburgh.
"Breaking into buildings [and] seeing words written repetitively" in inhospitable surroundings led him to try writing graffiti himself.
It was a fairly inhospitable environment for Bill.
Charles Curtis, a surgeon from England who briefy visited the hospital during 1782 83, found it and its surroundings rather inhospitable: The country round was more than once overrun, and plundered by the horse troops of Hyder Ally.
Make your environment inhospitable for coyotes.
Those reliant on their immediate surroundings for sustenance find themselves suddenly facing inhospitable environments.
Her surroundings are harsh and barren, but the inhospitable space is strangely animated by the figure's restrained energy.
Even as she is being marched in chains through the Amazon jungle, one of the most inhospitable places on earth, the harsh beauty of her surroundings moves her to poetry.
