How to Use ambivalence in a Sentence

ambivalence

noun

• Up and down the state, there was little ambivalence for Elder, just love or hate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• Still, ambivalence about renaming Fort Bragg, the largest base in the nation, runs deep.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• Indigenous neighbors expressed ambivalence over his time among them.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2021
• My ambivalence about photography wasn’t the only reason for the gaps.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• So, where does that leave a music festival that refuses to sugarcoat a deep ambivalence with its own premise?
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2021
• At least one missile expert reacted with ... ambivalence.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• And when Dickie steals some giant stereo speakers for him, Tony’s ambivalence about taking them speaks louder than the speakers.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
• The Red Sea crisis has exposed Beijing’s ambivalence about its military presence.
  — Aaron Glasserman, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2024
• The Air Force’s ambivalence toward the Rivet Joints doesn’t apply to the service’s other aging plane types.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• The latest study out of Oxford is the latest in a long line of examples which suggest the beauty industry’s ambivalence towards Black women’s health.
  — Seyi Falodun-Liburd, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• And that ambivalence raises important questions about the Chinese system’s usefulness.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• But even such intense and volatile subject matter is presented with Thompson’s characteristic ambivalence.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• This kind of ambivalence is all over Meet Me by the Fountain.
  — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• Parton is not the first artist to express ambivalence about the Hall of Fame.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
• All the emotion attached to this ambivalence — the love, the pain, the humor, the all-of-it — is fleeting, like a bite mark.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Post talks about getting back on the road with some ambivalence.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022
• This creates a new task for the coachee called ambivalence handling.
  — Cristian Hofmann, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The greatest challenge facing the U.S. may be the ambivalence of many of Asia’s leaders.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2022
• But what's the real cost of this ambivalence toward work?
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The song is a very honest display of that ambivalence, anger and sadness.
  — Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit by the moon, held a lure for Edward Lear, a tidal ambivalence.
  — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2022
• The best episodes are about the ambivalence Luis, Julio, and the rest of their family have toward tradition.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Stark, who is known for her subversive takes on corsetry, confronts that ambivalence head-on in The Tour.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
• What keeps me awake at night is our proactive ambivalence.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
• But that didn’t change the men’s ambivalence about their own retirement.
  — Charley Locke, The Atlantic, 23 July 2024
• On top of this is the ambivalence of a number of African countries towards Russia.
  — John F. Clark, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• One of the core ideas is the ambivalence of online relationships.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
• What’s accounting for that ambivalence at that point in time?
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
• There is still ambivalence about the quarterback at best – and a lack of confidence at worst.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 15 July 2024
• Perhaps my e-bike ambivalence comes in part from the bike’s strange social status.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024