How to Use nonpolitical in a Sentence

nonpolitical

adjective
  • But there’s also some nonpolitical themes explored, and some pure fun to be had.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • They are asked to be nonpolitical when politics is their blood sport.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There are three main explanations for that gap, and the first two are nonpolitical.
    — Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Would either case have been brought against a nonpolitical civilian?
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The crackdown hits even those who switch their focus to nonpolitical content.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There is no shortage of nonpolitical con artists and hucksters online.
    — Ilya Somin, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Back then, the idea was to use nonpolitical media to change perceptions set by newspapers or the nightly news.
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Magna also cut its expectations on nonpolitical ad spending for the second half of this year.
    — Megan Graham, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 17 July 2017
  • Despite the claims of Carlson and others, these leagues have never been nonpolitical.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Many local schools are trying to keep their events nonpolitical and open to students with different views on how to address school safety.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 14 Mar. 2018
  • When the problem is about nonpolitical issues, like figuring out the whether a drug is effective, people tend to use their math skills to solve it.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 Apr. 2018
  • These vaccines have moved through three phases of study and been reviewed by two nonpolitical panels of trustworthy leaders.
    — Jill Foster, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • In a flash, the club’s nonpolitical events business was decimated.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Social nonpolitical event for Ramona women to get to know each other and enjoy common ground.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
  • It was meant to allow for a nonpolitical assessment of a president’s conduct.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • This is not the first nonpolitical thing that has become politicized and polarized in American life.
    — Alvin Melathe, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020
  • What was once the home of a nonpolitical message poking gentle fun at a local landmark has become a place where our fractured politics are on view.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Its work is largely nonpolitical.
    — Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The head of the office is a political appointee, though the actual attorneys are meant to be nonpolitical hires.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • And so two nonpolitical events that, nevertheless, came framed in the mythmaking of politics.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The annual music competition, the world’s biggest of its kind, bills itself as a nonpolitical event.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The performers have taken care to keep their language and material fairly clean and nonpolitical.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2022
  • Olympic officials and business leaders protest that the Games are nonpolitical, but that is disingenuous.
    — Nicholas Kristof, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The ad was taken down, one of many nonpolitical ads that have been hit by Facebook’s new guidelines for political advertisers.
    — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 3 July 2018
  • There’s no use in bemoaning that wearing masks — what should be a nonpolitical means of helping protect everyone’s health — has become another symbol in the culture wars.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • There’s no explicit mention of just what might be causing more and more tornadoes to pop up, and the film walks a nonpolitical line on climate change while still nodding at how the times certainly are different.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 July 2024
  • Many forecasters declined to speak on the record for fear of losing their jobs or of ratcheting up the political furor surrounding what many have always viewed as a nonpolitical government job.
    — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Some nonpolitical contributors expressed frustration with the lack of transparency from the company over the rollout of the program.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • The company has said the same services were offered to Hillary Clinton‘s campaign as well as other nonpolitical clients that are big advertisers on its platform.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023

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