Example sentences for: ambivalence

How can you use “ambivalence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding preoccupation: authority and the ambivalence it inspires.

  • In work and in life, Cornwell screams ambivalence, which may explain why she's so popular and so queasily interesting.

  • In “Relativity,” Medley serves us a cautionary tale of the costs of our chronic ambivalence about the critical issues of race and justice in science.

  • Most Tories loathe the European Union, and Major has alienated them with his ambivalence toward it.

  • Yes, it's ironic, but predictable, that people express ambivalence toward second or heritage languages: They attack languages such as Spanish that they perceive as a threat, while defending "cute" languages like Boontling (you and I are may be the only ones in the audience who know what that is) or "antique" languages like Cornish.


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