Editorial »

How to use the word unfriendly in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

21 results found

Flying aircraft close to each other at 500 miles per hour with unfriendly intentions is generally unsafe, at that range, an unexpected maneuver or an equipment issue can cause a terrible accident in under a second.

Blake Herzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mar-a-Lago has been a porous place ever since Donald Trump declared Donald Trump candidacy and started winning primaries several years ago, if you were any intelligence service, friendly or unfriendly, worth their salt, they would be concentrating their efforts on this incredibly porous place.

Aki Peritz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What I worry about is that the goodwill that they've built over the years... dissipates over time when they do things that should be more consumer unfriendly, all the incredible value and goodwill that they built is at risk of being jeopardized.

Michael Nathanson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country.

Yuri Kochetkov/Pool -RRB- Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My fear is that if the world feels that it can no longer look with the same level of certainty and confidence to the US or NATO... we will see emboldened moves from actors hostile or unfriendly to a more united Europe, that means that Europe must realize that the weight of the world democratic and security order rests more heavily on Europe's shoulders. It is a wake-up call that we have snoozed too many times.

Roberta Metsola

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Too many times, too many administrations, every president eventually gets mugged by reality on this and comes to the conclusion that as hard as it is to live with Saudi Arabia as close partners, given the huge gap in values that exists between the two societies, it's even much harder to have to deal with them as potential adversaries or as an unfriendly country, they just remain too important.

John Hannah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The relations now have hit the bottom, there are certain consequences of the unfriendly measures taken against our country and the retaliatory measures taken by us.

Dmitry Peskov

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I hope that no parent ever feels like a classroom is an unfriendly place for their kids.

Bruce Johnson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Russia used to be popular, but unfortunately that’s declined lately due to sanctions and an unfriendly policy toward gay travelers.

Sophia Kulich

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

NATO's policy with regard to Russia has remained unfriendly and opaque. One could go as far as to say that we have slid back to a new Cold War, almost on an everyday basis we are called one of the most terrible threats either to NATO as a whole or to Europe or to the United States.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Found on CNN
8 years ago

NATO's policy with regard to Russia has remained unfriendly and opaque. One could go as far as to say that we have slid back to a new Cold War, almost on an everyday basis we are called one of the most terrible threats either to NATO as a whole or to Europe, or to the United States.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the earth for mankind's use, instead of relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources.

Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use, instead of relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources, and if I were head of that.

Sarah Palin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby: oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations.

Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Russia-U.S. relations are undergoing difficult times caused by Washington’s purposeful unfriendly actions, groundlessly making Russia responsible for the Ukraine crisis which was largely triggered by the United States itself, in 2014...Barack Obama's administration chose a path to cut back bilateral ties, proclaimed policy toward 'isolating' our country at the international scene and demanded support to its confrontational steps from countries who traditionally follow Washington's track.

The Russian foreign ministry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I have seen and heard him be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community, he was very angry, anytime I saw him.

Samantha Maness

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I have seen and heard (Hicks) be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community.

Samantha Maness

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Mediocrity wants to be your friend. Be unfriendly.

Leslie Miklosy

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.

John Andrew Holmes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for unfriendly? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    a word that is more generic than a given word
    A hypernym
    B recital
    C lumberman
    D brasserie