How to Use ambivalent in a Sentence

ambivalent

adjective

• But my main goal wasn’t to generate an ambivalent, dark female character.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
• Some Israelis, however, saw it as a mixed victory; others were even more ambivalent.
  — Ilene Prusher, Time, 14 May 2018
• The Israelites were ambivalent about leaving their servitude behind and more than once expressed a yearning to return to it.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
• For the Godard-ambivalent, the critical outrage of the partisans will provide its own kind of amusement.
  — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The one thing that’s been very clear as people respond to the news of you being brought back by The Score and the latest lineup changes is people are anything but ambivalent.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Many however, were ambivalent about Trump himself using the language and suggested what goes on behind closed doors is nobody’s business.
  — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• Like Kitzhaber, Oregonians have long had an ambivalent relationship with the death penalty.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
• 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
• Yet the job has always been cursed with a kind of ambivalent status.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Among the other two camps of RNC members, one is ambivalent, at least for the moment.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The whole dispute reflects some ambivalent feelings, both in Greece and around the world, about the value of the past and which bits of it matter most.
  — The Economist, 10 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The survivors fled into the Otherworld and became fairies—enigmatic beings whose attitude toward humankind was ambivalent at best.
  — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024