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
  • Many school shooters don't fit the stereotype of the indiscriminate teenage killer.
    — Author: John Woodrow Cox, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But these are cross the board tariffs that are indiscriminate, that that are imposed one day and taken down the next.
    — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • But they aren't always taught the extent of the indiscriminate killings.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2021
  • If the culture averted its gaze from his indiscriminate bluster, what would be the loss?
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And two, baking soda is an indiscriminate weed killer that poisons the soil.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
  • And two, baking soda is an indiscriminate weed killer that poisons the soil.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 May 2025
  • On its surface, cheese and sauce blend together, an indiscriminate swirl of oily white.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In fact, the coronavirus may prove more indiscriminate than that.
    — The Economist, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Count me among the people who typically dump some indiscriminate amount in and move on.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • 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
  • After enough of these indiscriminate changes, programs on the disk stopped loading.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 May 2023
  • There are no 'indiscriminate stops' being made.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • To be sure, there are many who worry that the panic selling that has defined the market as of late has been indiscriminate.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The indiscriminate shooting of birds of prey like the merlin has also declined.
    — Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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 regime also switched to the indiscriminate use of airpower.
    — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
  • 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 greatest fear would be that the cartel turns to indiscriminate violence.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The greatest fear would be that the cartel turns to indiscriminate violence.
    — Maria Verza, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Use of the weapons, the plaintiffs argued, amounted to an indiscriminate use of force that infringed upon their rights.
    — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That doesn’t support claims of widespread, indiscriminate raids.
    — Mike Carroll, Oc Register, 17 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • They have also been asked to remove weeds and avoid the indiscriminate use of pesticides and fertilisers.
    — Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The indiscriminate nature of the Manning disclosures is what kills it for me.
    — Nicholas Zimmerman, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
  • Most of those deaths have been blamed on the insurgents, a result of indiscriminate bombings and suicide attacks.
    — Fatima Faizi, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • Three of the previous five matchups were loopy, feverish close finishes, and the other two were indiscriminate blowouts by the home team.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 May 2025

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