Example sentences for: ambivalent

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

  • Despite the tax benefits that are available from deducting such contributions, I am ambivalent about giving.

  • Ambivalent reviews for a drama about an insecure twentysomething female lawyer.

  • The Mavericks, in Music for All Occasions (MCA), clearly possess enough knowledge of country's history to feel ambivalent toward it; but it's such a high-functioning bar band that it can't be alternative.

  • But perhaps its most emblematic characteristic is its ability to provoke a flustered and ambivalent response in the reader, a horrified sympathy that alternates with a deep desire to distance oneself from the nightmare at hand.

  • If Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Malaya was notoriously brutal, the attitude towards Asian civilians was more ambivalent.


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