"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He dies and is buried in the England which proved so inhospitable to him.
- They land in several nearby countries that prove inhospitable, and are finally told by an oracle that they must return to the land of their forebears.
- The island proved inhospitable, and twice the Pitcairners moved away to Norfolk Island or to Tahiti, 1,300 miles to the northwest.
- Yet in a development that is bringing shame to Ireland, the country that sent millions of people abroad as poor immigrants is proving inhospitable to needy outsiders who are arriving here.
- Manhattan communities once more prove inhospitable to the kind of diversity and cutting edge creativity these small groups represent.
- The next four planets proved equally inhospitable, nor had he expected more.
- The dry, mountainous and chaparral lands proved inhospitable.
- Inevitably, however, the new China is proving inhospitable for some.
- I considered that I still had strength enough to fly on to my next cache, in Mile End, and, if conditions there should somehow prove even more inhospitable, fly back again.
- It was an ideal hiding place for pirates who terrorized the Caribbean shipping centuries ago, and has proved inhospitable for Sandinista troops trying to track Miskito rebels.
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