573 examples of unwelcome in sentences

"Turkey's entry into the War," he writes, "was unwelcome to Turkish society in Constantinople, whose sympathies were with France, as well as to the mass of the people, but the Panislamic propaganda and the military dictatorship were able to stifle all opposition.

German war books breathe hate and contempt for the Walloons, but bestow clumsy bear-like caresses (no doubt unwelcome to their recipients) on the Flemings.

The play was to be on Friday night, because then there would be no school next day; and Friday morning Patty was as busy as a bee sorting tickets, counting out programmes, making lists, and checking off memoranda, when Pansy appeared at her door with the unwelcome announcement that Miss Daggett had sent word she would like to have Patty call on her.

Unwelcome, only because Patty was so busy, otherwise she would have been glad of a summons to the house next-door, for she had taken a decided fancy to her erratic neighbour.

" "You'll get me into trouble," answered he major, shaking off his unwelcome neighbour, moving a step further from him, and speaking also in a whisper.

Now he has come again, to increase the difficulties of my position by his unwelcome assiduities.

" "Unwelcome to you" rejoined Alfred; "but, handsome and fascinating as he is, they are not likely to be unwelcome to your daughters.

She kept back the unwelcome news from the girls, while she held long consultations with Signor Papanti.

He is more than kin through his unwelcome marriageless than kind by the difference in their natures.

To Clanricard, whose health was infirm, and whose habits were domestic, nothing could be more unwelcome than such an appointment.

Age is so unwelcome to the Generality of Mankind, and Growth towards Manhood so desirable to all, that Resignation to Decay is too difficult a Task in the Father; and Deference, amidst the Impulse of gay Desires, appears unreasonable to the Son.

The Desire of Pleasing makes a Man agreeable or unwelcome to those with whom he converses, according to the Motive from which that Inclination appears to flow.

Even before Byron burst upon the world with the two first cantos of Childe Harold, and drew on him the eyes of all readers of poetry, Scott had made the unwelcome discovery that his own matter and manner was imitable, and that others were borrowing it.

The very name is unwelcome to the full-blown representatives of monarchical Europe, who forget how proudly, even in modern history, Venice bore the title of Serenissima Respublica.

The name was unwelcome at the time, especially because it was associated with the 'humanitarianism' then becoming widely taught in England.

He had discovered, however, that he was a not unwelcome visitor, and had kept up friendly relations with her.

" Philip flushed and his frank eyes betrayed that this, though not entirely new news, was not unwelcome to hear.

She meant to shut out the unwelcome guests of fear and doubt from her heart, let love alone have sway.

Ever since she had been awake Ruth, had been haunted by that unwelcome bit of memory illumination which had come the night before.

" For a good many months Sylvia had been craving praise with a starved appetite, and although she found this downpour of it rather drenching, she could not sufficiently collect herself to make the conventional decent pretense that it was unwelcome.

I knew my presence would be very unwelcome, but staid hoping that it might restrain, in some measure, the passions of the mistress.

While in our external relations some serious inconveniences and embarrassments have been overcome and others lessened, it is with much pain and deep regret I mention that circumstances of a very unwelcome nature have lately occurred.

From him I received the unwelcome tidings, that the coach was not expected till six o'clock in the morning of the day after to-morrow, its route through that town recurring only three times a week.

The sun, instead of sending up his beams while 18° below the visible horizon, would come upon us out of an intense darkness, pass over our sky a brazen inglorious orb, and set in an instant amid unwelcome night.

The unwelcome visitor.

573 examples of  unwelcome  in sentences