How to Use indiscriminate in a Sentence

indiscriminate

adjective

• She has been indiscriminate in choosing her friends.
• He objects to the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
• They participated in the indiscriminate slaughter of countless innocent victims.
• Most of our days are filled with routine and pass by in an indiscriminate blur.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• But they aren't always taught the extent of the indiscriminate killings.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2021
• Many school shooters don't fit the stereotype of the indiscriminate teenage killer.
  — Author: John Woodrow Cox, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2019
• These indiscriminate attacks have forced tens of thousands of Israelis to flee the north of the country.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Sep. 2024
• The recession was indiscriminate in taking out wealth across the country, but that wealth hasn't grown back at the same rate.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 1 July 2019
• In the room, on the Democrats’ side of the aisle, lawmakers leaped to their feet and pounded out their applause with indiscriminate gusto.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• An insect of indiscriminate taste had bitten her, and the aftermath was a left eye that was swollen shut and the size of a tennis ball.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2018
• The assault was part of an indiscriminate campaign by President Bashar Assad’s forces to retake the town and the rest of the enclave from the rebels.
  — Philip Issa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The great market sell-off of 2022 has been indiscriminate.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• If the culture averted its gaze from his indiscriminate bluster, what would be the loss?
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• Slaughter of the Houthis, indiscriminate bombing, famine, cholera — as recompense to the Saudis for the Iran deal?
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 13 July 2017
• In school shootings where the killing is indiscriminate, Trump said shooters have in many cases passed by classrooms that were closed and locked.
  — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
• To me, that world was all about stale, dry brown bread and an indiscriminate way of eating cross-legged on couches or on the ground with none of the formality of the table.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• The army, and to a lesser extent the marines, have been accused in the past of excessive or indiscriminate use of force, and of trying to cover up those abuses.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
• But looting and indiscriminate killing spread throughout the area on April 15.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• First, eastern Ukraine has borne the brunt of the indiscriminate destruction that Putin has unleashed.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
• The regime also switched to the indiscriminate use of airpower.
  — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
• The Russians’ shelling was constant and indiscriminate, Bida said, and became round-the-clock in the days before the Russian retreat from the Kyiv region.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• The indiscriminate nature of the Manning disclosures is what kills it for me.
  — Nicholas Zimmerman, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
• The decision has been met with opposition due to the indiscriminate harm to civilians the weapons could cause.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• The militants have been indiscriminate in their use of drones, the U.S. military said.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• The forces behind it are sweeping, indiscriminate, and unforgiving, and the time to reckon with them is now.
  — Dov Seidman, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2017
• Jack Ryan said Green had been kicked out of the party and Green responded by opening fire in an indiscriminate manner.
  — Robert Moran, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• Count me among the people who typically dump some indiscriminate amount in and move on.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• But the indiscriminate nature of the air campaign, and its widespread impact on civilians, is unique to the military.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• In fact, the coronavirus may prove more indiscriminate than that.
  — The Economist, 4 Apr. 2020
• Advances in precision technology could lead to fewer indiscriminate aerial bombings and artillery attacks, and drones can spare the lives of soldiers in combat.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024