How to Use indifferent in a Sentence

indifferent

adjective
  • Was the food good, bad, or indifferent?
  • The movie was poorly received by an indifferent public.
  • No one is indifferent to that pain.
    — Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Why insist on the past when the present seems indifferent to it?
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • One artist faked her death to bump her sales, but the market was indifferent.
    — Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Whether that is a good, bad or indifferent thing is in the eye of the beholder.
    — Alex Hickey, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
  • And my heart was not yet indifferent to the shabby jargon of hope.
    — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • In the end, there is the apartment that feels as indifferent to her as a hotel room.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • And if these two were indifferent to each other, there would be no story.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
  • All this is in the middle of a cold, hard city that seems indifferent to urban squalor.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • My brother knew of my plot but remained indifferent as grief took hold.
    — Griffin Dunne, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Young men seen in the video seem indifferent to the gunshots ringing out around them.
    — Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Karpelès seemed indifferent to the plight of those who had lost money because of him.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2018
  • If his brother was indifferent to the drag queen or the story, that would have been our film.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Teams do not need leaders who are indifferent to how people feel.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Most people, most of the time, are indifferent to these persons of stone and bronze.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 14 June 2020
  • What was making the conchs near shore so indifferent to mating?
    — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • Around the green and putting, which are indifferent to power, showed little change.
    — Steve Marantz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Among the one in five who are indifferent, Oz is ahead by more than 3-to-1.
    — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Isaac is the rare actor who seems totally indifferent to whether or not he is loved.
    — Jason Nocito, GQ, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Jane looked to see if it was stained but the nurse as a professional seemed to be indifferent.
    — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Just an indifferent employee telling you to deal with it.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Dante had certainly hated this type in life; the shock here is how many of these indifferent souls there are.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But others in his party seem indifferent about an increase to the deficit.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Well, the dog was indifferent toward the kitten, but my wife and I fell head over heels for it.
    — Jim Kubuske, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The robots will be supremely indifferent to the brand colour and logo.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Many are indifferent to the process, and some remain oblivious to it.
    — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • And the grants would be at risk if he were found to be indifferent to the distinction between mine and thine in his use of them.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Some of the onlookers were indifferent and had nothing to say when asked to comment on the protest.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 25 May 2018
  • Trump is famously indifferent to the concerns of those around him.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026

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