Sample Sentences for
hospitable
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    The hotel staff was so hospitable that many guests returned year after year.
    hospitable = friendly and welcoming
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    "We were on a journey to visit our relatives, our nephews and nieces, and first, second, and third cousins, and the other descendants of our grandfathers, who live on the East side of these truly hospitable mountains," said Thorin, not quite knowing what to say all at once in a moment, when obviously the exact truth would not do at all.  (source)
    hospitable = welcoming
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    Much more hospitable than Americans.... 12/6: Small but dangerous waterfalls litter the canal.†  (source)
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    He's extremely hospitable, and I think he really likes to see me.†  (source)
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    I did not want to bring her to Morocco, to a place possibly inhospitable and dangerous to her.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitable means not and reverses the meaning of hospitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    "Shall we go in?" he would ask her, and he would turn to her and gesture hospitably toward the front door.†  (source)
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    John had seen Booth's weapons and knew he would not hesitate to take revenge for his family's inhospitality and betrayal.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitality means not and reverses the meaning of hospitality. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitably means not and reverses the meaning of hospitably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    The atmosphere was so unhospitable I stepped outside where they could watch me and I drank the orange.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhospitable means not and reverses the meaning of hospitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Besides, I'm getting filthy rich being so hospitable.†  (source)
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    Another prolonged delay ensued before the locks opened with an inhospitable snap.†  (source)
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    "Any one care for a little nip before we embark?" asked Mr. Davis hospitably.†  (source)
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    I had never encountered such obtuseness in a first-class hotel, and I told them so, but this only increased their inhospitality.†  (source)
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