How to Use indifference in a Sentence
indifference
noun- She watched them with a cool indifference.
- She was amazed that some people could watch the trial with indifference.
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So far, those pleas for help have been met with indifference.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
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In the face of this indifference, the onus falls on us to keep ourselves safe.
—Washington Post, 26 June 2024
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Trump’s indifference to the plight of Hong Kongers has long been clear.
—Josh Rogin, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2019
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Yet, to many young people, the king seems to almost flaunt his indifference.
—John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
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In his lifestyle, Coltrane stood apart for his indifference to the scene.
—Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021
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Centuries of neglect, years of indifference had caught up with us.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
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But the indifference and fear that maintain this border can be as lethal as a chokehold.
—Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 12 May 2023
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My voice is still frozen to silence, my poetry chained down by an icy band of indifference.
—Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2019
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This learned indifference to the obvious, to the grinding of the bones of their own.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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Our faiths tell us to reject indifference and demand justice; to choose life over death, and love over fear.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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This indifference to the law has made the bar an underground favorite.
—Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
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These are not numbers that favor steady-as-she-goes indifference to the climate.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Dec. 2025
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Or will it be done in by the kind of indifference chillingly depicted in the film?
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
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The way his gaze left the table, the odd quiet from his seat, the indifference toward his dinner.
—Taylor Goebel, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
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The film is a satire of high-art circles and a critique of the world’s indifference towards the refugee crisis.
—Alexander Durie, Variety, 27 Aug. 2021
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This is not the product of callous indifference but the power of empire.
—Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2020
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In moments, its blade will deposit a berm of ice chunks in front of your once pristine driveway with cold indifference.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Dec. 2025
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Anger is better than indifference, which is what the end of the Krystkowiak era yielded.
—Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
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Yes, Meursault is a bit toxic with his indifference, then one beats his wife, the other beats his dog.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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But at a 2% real return, that point of indifference goes up to 83.
—Raul Elizalde, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
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My indifference to this sport went deep—but somehow, suddenly, so did this desire.
—AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
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This was murder in the first degree-extreme indifference and the jury agreed.
—Elizabeth Pritchett , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
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The corrosive idea that evil happens out there is what sustains our indifference.
—Seema Jilani august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
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And indifference to this notion is the means by which the people can and will secure their own oppression.
—Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 9 Oct. 2020
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But to the other, this is often construed as coldness or indifference.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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The indifference of the universe, which doesn’t care about our pain – that’s what interested me.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
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What makes business rates so corrosive is their indifference.
—Lela London, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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All to the utter indifference of a Hollywood that hadn’t even bothered to hear of him.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
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