These inhospitable conditions led to the extinction of 76 percent of Earth’s species, including the dinosaurs.
An asteroid didn’t kill the dinosaurs by itself. Earth helped.|Kate Baggaley|September 30, 2020|Popular Science
This can make the soil inhospitable to native plants and tree seedlings and far more likely to erode.
Invasive jumping worms damage U.S. soil and threaten forests|Megan Sever|September 29, 2020|Science News
Some scientists contend that life on our planet arose in such seemingly inhospitable conditions.
Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs|Jack J. Lee|September 24, 2020|Science News
Though Venus is pretty inhospitable today, “Earth and Venus likely had very similar starting conditions, and recent work has shown that Venus may have been habitable, with surface liquid water oceans, as recently as a billion years ago,” he says.
Gas spotted in Venus’s clouds could be a sign of alien life|Neel Patel|September 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Apple was eager to arrive in India, but the country has been a somewhat inhospitable host.
Apple’s iPhone sales have lagged in India for years. It’s only now unleashing its branding firepower|Grady McGregor|September 6, 2020|Fortune
Be careful, it advised, your reaction could be misconceived as inhospitable.
How to Hide a Famine with Ping-Pong|Nicholas Griffin|January 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most important, they won elections in what might have otherwise been inhospitable territory.
GOP Needs More Northeast Republicans to Save the Party|John Avlon|January 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But then the Sahara dried out, turning from a green savannah into an inhospitable desert.
The Upside to Global Warming|Stefan Theil|August 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Who were the people who populated this usually uninhabited, inhospitable place so densely and in so strange a manner?
Arachne, Complete|Georg Ebers
But the Admiral gave this inhospitable welcomer the slip and was soon off the coast of Portugal.
The True Story of Christopher Columbus|Elbridge S. Brooks
Father Hickey had suffered the meed of his inhospitable conduct.
The Miraculous Revenge|Bernard Shaw
From the ridge top the descent to the lake was steep, with broken cliffs and a rough, inhospitable, stony beach at the base.
The Island of Yellow Sands|E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
Cold and inhospitable as is this country, we have the means of existing in it, if we have sense to employ them.
Peter the Whaler|W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for inhospitable
inhospitable
/ (ɪnˈhɒspɪtəbəl, ˌɪnhɒˈspɪt-) /
adjective
not hospitable; unfriendly
(of a region, an environment, etc) lacking a favourable climate, terrain, etc