Example sentences for: ambivalent

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

  • Emboldened by what he perceived as a popular mandate to end the impeachment inquiry, he infuriated ambivalent lawmakers by refusing to admit that he had lied.

  • I frankly don't know what to make of Besieged , which attempts to forge a complicated relationship between its protagonists through "pure cinema," and has won admiration for being allusive, elusive, elliptical, and other words that begin with "a" and "e" (enigmatic, ambivalent, evocative, etc.).

  • 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.

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

  • The author is ambivalent.


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