How to Use hospitality in a Sentence

hospitality

noun
  • It was refreshing to be met with such hospitality after our long journey.
  • Lower-income people, who are more likely to work early or late and on weekends in service and hospitality jobs, tend to take the bus.
    Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Ellen: An important point in my view, coming from a hospitality background, is: be friendly.
    Brendan Hay, SPIN, 23 May 2024
  • Trebek, though, didn’t originally approve of his career path — even though the hospitality industry runs in their family.
    Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024
  • Vendors and service providers benefited from the event’s large crowds, and the hospitality industry saw a notable uptick in activity.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 26 May 2024
  • Instead, some of the changes from that era of just a few years ago are now fixtures of the hospitality world.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The family then walked the halls and prayed for the hospitality world and workers.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Compared to the same time last year, the growth in the hospitality industry is up 82%.
    Jana Hollingsworth, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • The hospitality begins when the server first meets the guest.
    Gary Stern, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • The same can be said for its food culture and the hospitality of its people.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Of course, none of this hospitality would matter if the tacos didn’t pass muster.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • The trainers and jockeys who come here for the third weekend in May rave about the hospitality.
    Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
  • Lubbock is known for its hospitality, and one way the warmth comes across is through food.
    Don Williams, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
  • With hospitality in the blood, the nuptials were a true Forte famiglia affair.
    Emma Elwick-Bates, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Leisure and hospitality was the runaway leader in job creation both for the month and year-over year.
    Andrew Moreau, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2023
  • The hospitality at this sibling to Bresca is world-class.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Part 2 looks at the ways the hospitality industry tries to stay healthy.
    Anne Brockhoff, kansascity.com, 2 May 2017
  • The sectors that added the most jobs were leisure and hospitality, health care, and construction.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • On top of that, wages in the leisure and hospitality sector have hit record highs, so robots could help do away with the need for as many workers.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Delta is taking its on-the-ground hospitality to new heights.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
  • There are also people who don’t want a hug and for them, hospitality is about leaving them the hell alone.
    Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Students in the hospitality and tourism pathway gathered around a table in white chef coats in the school kitchen.
    Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 30 July 2019
  • That’s out of reach for many in a city driven by the hospitality industry.
    Chevel Johnson, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • Over the last three years, the industry has seen some of the most difficult times in the history across the food and drink hospitality sector.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • One trait that all Arabs feel deep down is hospitality.
    Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • His true life passion was this business and the hospitality part of this business.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • More than 20 million Americans, many of them in leisure and hospitality, lost their jobs in the first months of the pandemic.
    Abha Bhattarai, Luis Melgar, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
  • And for showing us the true meaning of Hoosier hospitality.
    Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • His father worked in the hospitality business, and his mother was a farmer and horse breeder.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Hotel towels’ biodegradable future Towels are evolving in line with the hospitality industry’s attempts to minimize waste and embrace greener practices.
    Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 18 July 2024

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