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How to use hospitable in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Hospitable means cordial and generous towards guests. Example: “We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.”

More sentences with hospitable

  • We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.2022, Chowdhury I. Zaman, In the Corridors of Elysium, page 180. From the entry put up with
  • "Not very hospitable of them," he said, reaching for my hand.2015, Lesley L. Smith, The Quantum Cop. From the entry quantum tunnel
  • When we were shown into his presence, John of Antwerp was his usual overboisterously hospitable self.2014, D. K. Wilson, The Traitor's Mark, →ISBN. From the entry overboisterously
  • They were hospitable and loved company We sat on a dhurrie under the open sky.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 359. From the entry dhurrie
  • Hospitable Lesvians and refugees with smiling eyes, with longing, with hope, optimism, and desire to show us a piece of home.2022, Sophie Streeting, Melting Pot, novum premium Verlag, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry Lesvian
  • Prianiki are favorite sweets in hospitable Russian households.1999, Natalia A. Kargapolova, “Unseen Treasures: Imperial Russia and the New World”, in American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation…. From the entry prianik
  • Before tea-time my circumbendibus brought me to the hospitable residence of Tommy’s chief supporter, whom we will call Mr Goodhart.1968, George William Erskine Russell, Afterthoughts, Ayer Publishing, page 152. From the entry circumbendibus
  • Inhabited by native nonhumanoid race, slurb, extremely friendly and hospitable.1954, Idris Seabright, Portals of Tomorrow: The Best Tales of Science Fiction, and Other Fantasy, Rinehart, page 126. From the entry nonhumanoid
  • Churches with an attractional posture toward mission have long sought to be hospitable to seekers and other visitors who might attend worship.2011, Craig Van Gelder, Dwight J. Zscheile, The Missional Church in Perspective, page 132. From the entry attractional
  • Unless one believes in the unlimited graces of Allâh and trains oneself to be a donor and hospitable one will remain miserly.1997, Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad Al-Mo’taz, “The negative qualities of mankind in the Holy Qur’ân”, in The Man: A Strange Creature with…. From the entry unmiserliness
  • He was so hospitable that I almost stayed to lunch as they were to have turnip greens juicened with salt pork, of the fat variety.1927, Oil and Gas Journal, volume 26, page 158. From the entry juicen
  • English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions?2016 January 25, Adam Kirsch, “What’s great about Goethe?”, in The New Yorker. From the entry bildungsroman
  • There's nothing to do but attempt the Hail Mary pass of shipping vast loads of humanity spacewards in the hope of finding more hospitable climes elsewhere in the galaxy.2009 September 25, Peter Howell, “Surrogates and Pandorum: Clones of sci-fi classics”, in Toronto Star. From the entry spacewards
  • Blanchard’s magic wand, the most representative brains and wills of the world’s governments, workers and employers meeting in Geneva, the amiable and hospitable amphitryon of the Swiss Alps.1981, International Labor Conference Record of Proceedings, pages 15-5. From the entry amphitryon
  • In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry fazenda
  • In proper California fashion we made our nooning by the roadside, pulling up under the shade of a hospitable sycamore and turning Sorreltop out to graze.1909, Various, The California Birthday Book. From the entry nooning
  • The anglos have seen the whole of the country, and the continent, as hospitable, while the francos have over a long period come to view Quebec as their real homeland.1977, Report on Confederation. From the entry franco

Meaning of hospitable

  1. adjective Cordial and generous towards guests.
  2. adjective Receptive and open-minded.
  3. adjective Favorable.

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Questions about hospitable in a sentence

How do you use hospitable in a sentence?
Hospitable is used as an adjective. For example: “We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.”
What is a short sentence with hospitable?
“Prianiki are favorite sweets in hospitable Russian households.”
What does hospitable mean?
Hospitable means cordial and generous towards guests.

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