How to Use indifferent in a Sentence

indifferent

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Young men seen in the video seem indifferent to the gunshots ringing out around them.
    Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • And my heart was not yet indifferent to the shabby jargon of hope.
    Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • But good or bad, none of the reviews have been indifferent.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2017
  • 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
  • The challenge that the Holocaust is to all of us is never to be indifferent.
    National Geographic, 2 July 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most people, most of the time, are indifferent to these persons of stone and bronze.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 14 June 2020
  • Karpelès seemed indifferent to the plight of those who had lost money because of him.
    Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The depth of that closet, the trove of secrets buried, indifferent to the consequences.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • But others in his party seem indifferent about an increase to the deficit.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Berlin itself was the city most resistant and indifferent to Nazism at the time.
    Peter Bradshaw, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
  • Many are indifferent to the process, and some remain oblivious to it.
    Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Isaac is the rare actor who seems totally indifferent to whether or not he is loved.
    Jason Nocito, GQ, 20 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Bach was not indifferent to his forebears — far from it.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The party was out of touch or indifferent to minorities.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 22 Nov. 2019
  • His mother has gone from indifferent to on board with his playing video games in college.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Right, wrong, indifferent, that’s that was the feeling.
    James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
  • America has long been indifferent to what goes on in the academy.
    WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For the most part, our donor class is simply indifferent to journalism.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019

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