How to Use ambivalent in a Sentence

ambivalent

adjective

• At the time, TV executives sounded ambivalent about the trend.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 Aug. 2019
• She will be remembered for her outspoken and ambivalent sense of humor that always had everyone in the room full of laughter.
  — courant.com, 28 June 2019
• The plot of the book is not just her life, or even her intellectual life, but the drama of her ambivalent biographer reckoning with both.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2019
• But the film — much like its ambivalent protagonist — never really picks a side, at least not convincingly.
  — Pat Padua, Twin Cities, 27 June 2019
• But the film – much like its ambivalent protagonist – never really picks a side, at least not convincingly.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• Meanwhile, cultural examples of ambivalent mothers as bad mothers abound.
  — Peggy Drexler, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• There’s no official guidance on how shoppers should support the strike, and many of the striking workers who talked to The Verge were ambivalent on the question.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 14 July 2019
• These cats were further categorized into ambivalent, avoidance, or having a approach/avoidance conflict.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2019
• And that’s the biggest electoral challenge for Biden and the Democrats, getting disgruntled or ambivalent Americans to vote.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024
• Democratic voters used to be ambivalent about immigration, and Democratic politicians knew it.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Trump has always appeared ambivalent over the war in Ukraine and continuing aid.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024