be hostile to
Example Sentences
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Someone suggested that falling asleep to audiobooks might be hostile to the appreciation of literature.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2024
Dr. Steve Desch, an astrophysics professor at Arizona State University, was also skeptical of the prospect that aliens would be hostile to Earth.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
He was reported to be hostile to Belgian state officials and to a leading virologist.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2023
There’s particular concern that the new lawmakers will be hostile to protecting voting rights, an issue especially resonant in the city where John Lewis, Diane Nash and other civil rights leaders got their start.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2022
Thomas Hobbes, although he was not an atomist, had developed a materialist, Epicurean philosophy which was universally understood to be hostile to religion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
