How to Use unwelcome in a Sentence

unwelcome

adjective
  • Worse, an unwelcome guest and the guest who is footing the bill.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The sheik does not want the unwelcome news of his brother’s return to reach the rest of the village.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The pop icon has been open about feeling unwelcome in the genre.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • There is no more unwelcome house guest than a group of gnats.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • Rights groups argue this is an unwelcome resurgence of a trend best left in the past.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • While the change may be unwelcome, there are many options to choose from once Skype bows out.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Kanye West was an unwelcome guest at the Grammys this year.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The new report is the latest unwelcome news for NSO Group.
    — Alan Suderman, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Anyone willing to come down and move in to the house my unwelcome, unpaid guests are in?
    — Pete Grieve, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In this landscape of strong and powerful athletes, the specter of the weak and evil man is unwelcome.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The attention, while keeping the team in the news of late, has been unwelcome for Gutierrez.
    — Jose M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • And then, like an unwelcome delivery from the metaphor store, Biden caught Covid-19.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Humar figured the Uighur men must have felt unwelcome, forced to work long hours with nowhere to go in their off time.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
  • That might only be the start of an unwelcome upward trend.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Among the unwelcome surprises is a sense of isolation, from the rest of the world and from each other.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • On a night of surprises, this was a most unwelcome one.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This is not to say that larger changes cannot be achieved, or that new ideas for reforms are unwelcome.
    — Eric Schneider, STAT, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The eight penalties were unwelcome but other than that there isn’t much to complain about.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But this unwelcome attention to the last drops of his food makes my stomach churn.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Along the way, of course, he’s drawn some unwelcome attention.
    — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
  • And the pandemic closure, while unwelcome, gave the owners a chance to rethink the menu.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Many in your nieces' age group seem to treat talking on the phone as an unwelcome intrusion.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Farmer: Changes in policy and laws – that were, by the way, very unwelcome, often.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But right now, the City of Light is dealing with very unwelcome visitors: bed bugs.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The master/slave language is far from the only thing that makes coders of color feel unwelcome or out of place.
    — Elizabeth Landau, Wired, 6 July 2020
  • Harry says William and Kate acted in ways that made Meghan feel unwelcome.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The trial looms as an unwelcome distraction for the Biden team.
    — Jonathan Lemire, ajc, 23 Jan. 2021
  • The report said that the treatment of HNA and tough trade talk made Chinese investors feel unwelcome.
    — Alan Rappeport, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
  • Racist route names are yet another way that many are made to feel unwelcome.
    — Ikya Kandula, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2020
  • For older generations of Wolves fans, their goalscoring hero hitting the big six-o is an unwelcome reminder of the march of time.
    — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

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