How to Use ambivalence in a Sentence

ambivalence

noun

• And in the end, her ambivalence cost her the apartment.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• The fact that women could be the equals of men aroused ambivalence.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2020
• And in a world that seems to have none, that ambivalence is his burden to bear.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
• This kind of ambivalence is all over Meet Me by the Fountain.
  — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• Parton is not the first artist to express ambivalence about the Hall of Fame.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
• All the emotion attached to this ambivalence — the love, the pain, the humor, the all-of-it — is fleeting, like a bite mark.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• That was something that changed me: seeing the ambivalence, the doubt and the relief all in the same household.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2020
• The key to the mythic mode, asserts Ball, is ambivalence.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• Post talks about getting back on the road with some ambivalence.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022
• This isn't the first time Clarke expressed ambivalence about the show's ending.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2019
• My ambivalence comes because of the finiteness of the end of the shortest month on the calendar.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• This creates a new task for the coachee called ambivalence handling.
  — Cristian Hofmann, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The greatest challenge facing the U.S. may be the ambivalence of many of Asia’s leaders.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2022
• But what's the real cost of this ambivalence toward work?
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Up and down the state, there was little ambivalence for Elder, just love or hate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• And yet for all her ambivalence about the job, at least a part of Burns looked forward to the accolades that might come her way.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020
• That ambivalence isn’t a mistake or a by-product — it’s the subject of the show itself.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 May 2021
• The song is a very honest display of that ambivalence, anger and sadness.
  — Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit by the moon, held a lure for Edward Lear, a tidal ambivalence.
  — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2022
• My colleague Melissa Gomez spoke to a host of teens about their ambivalence.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• The best episodes are about the ambivalence Luis, Julio, and the rest of their family have toward tradition.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Stark, who is known for her subversive takes on corsetry, confronts that ambivalence head-on in The Tour.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
• Still, ambivalence about renaming Fort Bragg, the largest base in the nation, runs deep.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• What keeps me awake at night is our proactive ambivalence.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
• But that didn’t change the men’s ambivalence about their own retirement.
  — Charley Locke, The Atlantic, 23 July 2024
• On top of this is the ambivalence of a number of African countries towards Russia.
  — John F. Clark, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• But if the outlook grows even foggier, the ambivalence splitting the FOMC now could grow even wider.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2019
• The best cop stories probe the ambivalence of police power.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 31 July 2020
• Perhaps most telling is the ambivalence that some groups express.
  — Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021
• Trump’s ambivalence reflects that of the American people.
  — Nick Gillespie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2025