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 were a few reasons the US pushed this idea of free and apolitical science.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
• There is no such thing as an apolitical artist, Thomas Mann once said.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• How did the Cold War spawn this idea that science is apolitical?
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
• This is not to say that even the most anodyne jokes are apolitical.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• Winning is apolitical Uno, however, is not meant to be played in a hands-across-the-aisle style.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 21 Nov. 2019
• 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
• But the Fall 2018 runways, from New York to Paris, felt strangely apolitical and unreflective of the world around us.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2018
• No show needs to address the President, but no show can be apolitical.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Until Michelle Williams took to the stage tonight at the 2019 Emmy Awards, the evening was shaping up to be relatively apolitical.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2019
• According to Wirth, Chevron is apolitical and tries to work with both parties.
  — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Plus, Jimmy Fallon had been the only apolitical host in late night.
  — Fox News, 9 July 2018
• 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
• Supreme Court justices, and indeed all judges, are apolitical in a significant way.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
• Trump, meanwhile, has focused on driving men to the polls, particularly younger and apolitical men who vote at lower rates than other groups.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025