Example sentences for: ambivalent

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

  • 41 However, ambivalent attitudes were revealed concerning alcoholics and alcoholism.

  • Yet she was ambivalent about blaming Hollywood.

  • The cover story is ambivalent about laser eye surgery.

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

  • Her mother, Joanne Simpson, is widely assumed to be a prototype for Adele August, the exuberantly selfish mother in Anywhere But Here ; her brother, Apple Computer's Steve Jobs, is similarly thought to be a prototype for Tom Owens, the biotech mogul in her last novel, A Regular Guy . (To read an ambivalent Harvard Advocate article by Simpson's niece, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, about her own story's being appropriated in the latter work, click here.)


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