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
• 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
• And then, like an unwelcome delivery from the metaphor store, Biden caught Covid-19.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• 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 right now, the City of Light is dealing with very unwelcome visitors: bed bugs.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• Harry says William and Kate acted in ways that made Meghan feel unwelcome.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2023
• But for the rest of the world, the greenback's resurgence is a largely unwelcome development.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
• De Niro and one of his daughters were reportedly elsewhere in the home at the time and were unaware of their unwelcome guest.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2022
• Among those in the UCSD study who had an unwelcome return, the most common relapse was cough, followed by fatigue and headache.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
• In unwelcome news to homebuyers, none of this is expected to change soon.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• Apply that to the traditional field at a Phoenix Open, and 50-odd guys would be getting an unwelcome week off work.
  — Eamon Lynch, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• The unforgettable scenes have never been more unwelcome in the SEC.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2022
• This does not make a spoken or emailed thanks unwelcome, merely less formal.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
• In the meantime, the guest, however unwelcome, is likely doing you no harm.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• But in the Arctic, beavers are sometimes seen as unwelcome intruders that could disrupt life on the tundra.
  — Sharon Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• Answer: The theft from its pedestal at Eden Park came as unwelcome news to the local Italian community.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2023
• Rather less unwelcome is what spring—and then, eventually, the heat of summer—inevitably brings.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 26 June 2023
• But plus-size tourists like Phillip Nicholson often feel unwelcome at pools or beach resorts.
  — Laken Brooks, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• Her presence is unwelcome from the jump, but Tom zeroes in on her bag: a hulking Burberry crossbody bag in that searing plaid.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
• Given the rest of the car is so quiet, can’t engineers quell this unwelcome intrusion?
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2022
• Needless to say, the market impact will be bullish for prices, something unwelcome in the U.S. and oil importing nations, which could last for months.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Stomping all over those tropical fruit notes is the unwelcome taste of fake movie theater butter.
  — Anna Kramer, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• Just eight months into Iger’s second tenure, that must have seemed like a very unwelcome dose of Wall Street impatience.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
• This reduces the risk of escalation, while still making their point that foreign forces are unwelcome in the South China Sea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2022
• This is not the first time Arizona's manual has had an unwelcome public spotlight.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Serbian tennis star is unwelcome in the U.S. because he hasn’t been vaccinated against Covid.
  — Margery Smelkinson and Leslie Bienen, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
• The house was built like a fortress, with walls that could withstand small-arms fire, steel gates to shield the bedrooms, and window slits near the front door so that Cooper could target any unwelcome visitors.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• Both are unwelcome, but one is typically harder to kick than the other.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024