How to Use indifferent in a Sentence

indifferent

adjective
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  • Was the food good, bad, or indifferent?
  • The movie was poorly received by an indifferent public.
  • All the ups, all the downs, the good, bad, indifferent.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Whether that is a good, bad or indifferent thing is in the eye of the beholder.
    — Alex Hickey, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Among the one in five who are indifferent, Oz is ahead by more than 3-to-1.
    — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In the end, there is the apartment that feels as indifferent to her as a hotel room.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The challenge that the Holocaust is to all of us is never to be indifferent.
    — National Geographic, 2 July 2016
  • Well, the dog was indifferent toward the kitten, but my wife and I fell head over heels for it.
    — Jim Kubuske, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But good or bad, none of the reviews have been indifferent.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2017
  • Most people, most of the time, are indifferent to these persons of stone and bronze.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 14 June 2020
  • One artist faked her death to bump her sales, but the market was indifferent.
    — Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
  • All this is in the middle of a cold, hard city that seems indifferent to urban squalor.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Young men seen in the video seem indifferent to the gunshots ringing out around them.
    — Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • How, pray tell, does Kyrie Irving and his indifferent approach at that end of the floor fix any of that?
    — Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The depth of that closet, the trove of secrets buried, indifferent to the consequences.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • And the grants would be at risk if he were found to be indifferent to the distinction between mine and thine in his use of them.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • And my heart was not yet indifferent to the shabby jargon of hope.
    — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Karpelès seemed indifferent to the plight of those who had lost money because of him.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Some of the onlookers were indifferent and had nothing to say when asked to comment on the protest.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 25 May 2018
  • Berlin itself was the city most resistant and indifferent to Nazism at the time.
    — Peter Bradshaw, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
  • The world cannot remain indifferent to the Iranian regime’s call to wipe Israel off the map.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 19 July 2023
  • Right, wrong, indifferent, that’s that was the feeling.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The robots will be supremely indifferent to the brand colour and logo.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Around the green and putting, which are indifferent to power, showed little change.
    — Steve Marantz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Try to see it as a cabal of insiders, indifferent to the well-being of the people.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Many are indifferent to the process, and some remain oblivious to it.
    — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • But others in his party seem indifferent about an increase to the deficit.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The reviews of the restaurant have ranged from good to indifferent, but major takedowns have yet to arrive.
    — Cyrill Matter, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
  • As the stalemate dragged on, Yaroslav felt that even the Ukrainian Army had become indifferent to soldiers like him.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Half of these six countries are hostile to the United States, and each of them is indifferent, at best, to American law.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022

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