How to Use ambivalent in a Sentence

ambivalent

adjective

• The play is ambivalent, in the end, about wellness claims.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2022
• As to the future of the culture wars, Mr. Hunter is ambivalent.
  — Jason Willick, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• For her part, Menard has long been ambivalent about firearms.
  — Jabin Botsford, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The effect is ambivalent: Are the dark streaks meant to be read as tears, the result of the subject’s sorrow?
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2019
• Alexie was ambivalent about competing in this year’s K300 at the end of the month.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Mark seemed ambivalent at times urging Brett on and at times telling him to stop.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2018
• On top of that, the show has an ambivalent attitude towards the '80s.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 July 2022
• Mark seemed ambivalent, at times urging Brett on and at times telling him to stop.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• All that remains, by the film’s final shot, is an ambivalent wall of sound.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• In this view, Iraq is at best an ambivalent partner and at worst a tacit foe.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• My ex is ambivalent and does not seem to care whether our daughter stays over the weekends with me or not.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• Nord Stream 2 is not yet active, but Germany has been ambivalent about the prospect of shutting the project down.
  — Fabrice Robinet, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2022
• But an obituary in The New York Times struck an ambivalent tone.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
• And the next day, the resident comes out and makes some comments that were highly ambivalent about that event.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• Hunting is a way of life, and the Scotts and others are ambivalent about gun restrictions.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• The duo created and star in the show, about a widowed and wayward tech genius and his ambivalent son.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• But the movie’s Gawain is already ambivalent about his calling.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• But lately, some have been ambivalent about that prospect.
  — Farah Yousry, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
• Even her two sons feel ambivalent at best these days about winter.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
• But there's got to be room for an eyebrow raise and an ambivalent shuffle-step to the side when something new rolls up the parade route.
  — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• The Texas Freedom Network hit a more ambivalent note in its year-end report.
  — Katie Worth, Scientific American, 20 June 2022
• His narrators are quiet and ambivalent, and live in the shadow of the Second World War.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2021
• The public is ambivalent about the war, and other events will intervene.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
• Your kids may seem ambivalent about school and avoidant about discussing the upcoming year.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
• The process has left some other locals ambivalent about the upgrade in status.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2020
• Some of her coworkers have been ambivalent about joining the union.
  — Azure Gilman, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2022
• Sure, being ambivalent is painful, but being stuck on one side of an issue is likely worse in the long run.
  — Howie Milstein, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Through the perspective of the ambivalent party, the humor takes on a grim quality.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• For much of the past two decades, Beijing was ambivalent about the massive U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
  — NBC News, 17 Aug. 2021
• Ma has alluded to his ambivalent relationship with the state in the past.
  — Fortune, 7 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 9 May 2024