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.
  • So that’s my conflicted feeling about the road.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Or maybe Nagy is truly conflicted on what the best move is here.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The point of art is to reflect something that feels true and conflicted!
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Aug. 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
  • Marvin might’ve been more conflicted because he was brought up that way.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That was nice, though folks were awfully conflicted about it.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 17 June 2019
  • Your heart stopped, a big big sensitive but conflicted heart.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2020
  • My host looks a little conflicted.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There's a lot of conflicted emotions.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • But what is cool is our William Tell is also very conflicted.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
  • How conflicted is his dad, who also is his coach but sees the larger picture?
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Sometimes, their minds are busier, slower and more conflicted.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But Fleegle and others feel deeply conflicted about antlers’ sway over us.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Cities, at the best of times, are conflicted and messy, beautiful, and cruel.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • But others were more conflicted.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Braff admits, but explains the conflicted choice.
    — Amanda Champagne-Meadows, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Characters in such plays were either good or bad—there was no room for such a thing as a conflicted inner life.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The decision is based on, in part, conflicted reviews by use-of-force experts.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The process laid bare how deeply conflicted white Southerners were about the topic.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • There's a lot of conflicted feelings out there, and I'm included in that.
    — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Hunter and Beau grew up conflicted about wealth—the old Biden-Finnegan divide.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Don Roberson is more conflicted.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Loving the Masters is the most conflicted pleasure in sports.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Federal agents seemed conflicted on how to proceed.
    — Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2026

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