How to Use conflicted in a Sentence

conflicted

adjective

• I'm conflicted about the prospect of our only child going away to college.
• She was still conflicted about her ex-husband's remarriage.
• It’s hard to imagine that Wentz, deep down, isn’t at least a little conflicted.
  — Les Bowen, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• My grandmother passed down her conflicted feelings about sausage consumption to my mom.
  — Samin Nosrat, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• And the view gets even more tangled and conflicted with each generation of his family.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2017
• That a man deemed unfit to live in society — indeed, to live at all — could wield such influence is a testament to our country’s conflicted views on the death penalty.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2018
• But outside the trendy community project known as Pop Brixton, where Reprezent is based, locals were more conflicted.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2018
• Discussing your father's behavior might release you from your own conflicted and negative memories and emotions.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• But the executive order was held back as the new president struggled with conflicted feelings about the young immigrants, known as Dreamers.
  — Author: Michael D. Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2017
• From the oscillating texture of her voice to her conflicted identity, O’Riordan was composed of contrasts.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 16 Jan. 2018
• But there weren’t any throwaways in Newman’s set, each song designed to elicit a conflicted response: inevitably catchy melodies paired with lyrics that suggest the narrator can’t be trusted.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• The auteurist, conflicted self-inspection of Bong Joon-ho helped, never presenting a moral imperative one way or the other.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 26 Jan. 2018
• Maragos, who won a Super Bowl with the Seahawks, acknowledged the conflicted feelings of not being able to perform on the grandest stage.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• And so, in the moist confines of his conflicted young mind, the spores of hypocrisy find fertile soil.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• The point of art is to reflect something that feels true and conflicted!
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021
• Hunter and Beau grew up conflicted about wealth—the old Biden-Finnegan divide.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Or maybe Nagy is truly conflicted on what the best move is here.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• His father seemed to want to dispose of the set, but both men seemed conflicted.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• Even in the most conflicted of passages, there was beauty and warmth.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2020
• Here, Black actors would play the good guy, the bad guy and the morally conflicted guy, who were often the same guy in one.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2022
• Cities, at the best of times, are conflicted and messy, beautiful, and cruel.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• But what is cool is our William Tell is also very conflicted.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• Father Alexandre is a conflicted man in a way most of us can't relate to.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2019
• But what about the nervous and conflicted 21-year-old rookie?
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2019
• Still, Charlemagne, who shuttled back and forth between Miami and Haiti, had a conflicted relationship with the land of the blanc, or foreigner.
  — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 14 Dec. 2017
• This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• There's a lot of conflicted feelings out there, and I'm included in that.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
• New Orleans was a conflicted place for the gay community at the time of the fire, Fieseler says.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• The process laid bare how deeply conflicted white Southerners were about the topic.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Caine’s character does indeed come across as a trans person whose conflicted identity leads him to kill.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024