How to Use apolitical in a Sentence

apolitical

adjective

• Although both of her parents are politicians, she's completely apolitical.
• The idea that judges could be apolitical doesn’t make sense.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• That’s the kind of pap that the mostly apolitical people in the middle want to hear from Democrats.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
• There is no such thing as an apolitical artist, Thomas Mann once said.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• This is not to say that even the most anodyne jokes are apolitical.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• And his current position is meant to be apolitical and to serve as a moral compass for the nation.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2021
• When talking about Candy’s apolitical view of most things, Carr reminds us of what was going on in the world around her.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The good guys and bad guys are both thoroughly apolitical.
  — Luke Winkie, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
• The first lady briefly touted her husband’s budget plan but the tone of the event was largely apolitical.
  — Kevin McGill, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
• In truth, there’s no such thing as apolitical rap music.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
• In South Africa, when a new chief justice was appointed a few months ago, there were questions about whether the court was apolitical or even could be.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• The show tends to be formalist and apolitical: melodies are melodies, chords are chords, patterns recur across the centuries.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Desire isn’t a spontaneous, apolitical passion; it’s shaped by the world around us, and by what we’ve been taught to value.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• So, the people in the streets today have a wide range of reasons to oppose the passes, and some are completely apolitical, like most of the Yellow Vests were.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• It's politicized but supposed to be apolitical, and there have been a number of large restructurings of the post office in the past 50 years.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2020
• But don’t confuse this statement with thinking that the artist is apolitical.
  — Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2022
• Cotton was a member of the Old Guard in between tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the book was, despite his hard-right politics, apolitical.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
• The central bank is staunchly apolitical and doesn’t care about the calendar.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• The prospect of an apolitical inquiry into the virus’s origins is dwindling.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• At the core of Pettitt’s frustration seemed to lie a belief that her values were apolitical.
  — Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
• The idea that the Supreme Court is an apolitical branch of government above the grubbiness of politics has always been quaint.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
• The Fed, after all, reacts to data and tries to be as apolitical as possible.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
• The once publicly apolitical singer has become more vocal about her views in recent years, and endorsed Biden in 2020.
  — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
• The Postal Service has long been an apolitical agency, and DeJoy is the first postmaster general in two decades who did not rise up the ranks.
  — TheWeek, 7 May 2020
• Maciunas had a politics, but most Fluxus art—and Cage’s and Duchamp’s art—is apolitical.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Masjedi said he’s apolitical but believes the rhetoric the last few years has ratcheted up strong emotions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• This was a solid reminder that the stars of country music have never been apolitical.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• The family was largely apolitical, Banks has said, though his parents did vote for Democrats.
  — Brian Slodysko, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
• Brats are hot, fun, and apolitical; they’ve been feminized and miniaturized and upgraded to a more consumer-friendly model.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
• Trump insisted his motive for Monday’s visit to the southern city of Valdosta was apolitical.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024