How to Use apathy in a Sentence

apathy

noun

• People have shown a surprising apathy toward these problems.
• People have shown surprising apathy toward these important social problems.
• Democrats don't have a shot in these districts, which can breed apathy among volunteers and donors, Yagoda said.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2024
• But alongside these little practical gems, there’s a smirk of rebellious apathy.
  — Anna Hezel, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
• And your second-biggest challenge is your target audience’s apathy.
  — Anne-Marie Rosser, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• Another problem is what police see as apathy from residents in neighborhoods where shootings are more frequent.
  — Glenn E. Rice And robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity.com, 14 May 2017
• Such a system would go a long way in addressing voter apathy and disaffection, its co-founder Michele Sutter said.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 16 Jan. 2017
• The complaints—pain, lack of sexual satisfaction, apathy toward sex—are often subtler and harder to address than those of men.
  — Melvin Konner, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2017
• Georgi’s next-door neighbor, a Russian girl named Revekka, was given a diagnosis of apathy three years before him.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• The Chargers are hemmed in by anger from the south and apathy from the north.
  — Bill Plaschke, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• That's the problem with a prolonged spell of apathy like the one which has built around the club - after a while, people snap.
  — SI.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• But at what point does even the county’s optimism run aground on the rocks of apathy?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Time for those who had drifted away, in apathy and in anger, to return.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• The war in Ukraine has, however, threatened to pierce some of that apathy.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• Avoidance and apathy are keeping them in place, and there’s not much reason to think that will change.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
• There was, however, a deep sense of apathy about the appetite for change.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2024
• There was a big concern about apathy among the Democratic base with Biden and the double haters.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• This sense of apathy pervades many in the state, where suicide is the second leading cause of death for people aged 25 to 32.
  — Andrew Keiper, Fox News, 24 June 2018
• Flat affect is the face of lethargy and voice of apathy: no eye rolling, no winking, no smirking.
  — Gina Ryder, Glamour, 4 May 2018
• Their apathy derived, in part, from the passage of time and a lack of proximity.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2022
• This is not a season that inspires anger or rage, just apathy, which is maybe the worst indictment of all.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
• The thing about ‘68 that most resonates with our own time period is a lot of voter apathy.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• So the winners are likely to be small parties (Palmer will vote for the Brexit Party) and apathy.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• Ed Stefanski, for now A lot of times in sports when a team is struggling, the anger in the fan base either boils over or turns to apathy.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2018
• Reactions to the run range from disgust to outrage to amused apathy.
  — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 20 Feb. 2018
• The apathy of the public about the death of local news points toward possible problems in the future.
  — Anthony Hennen, National Review, 26 Oct. 2021
• Sam Greene/The Enquirer Sunday set up as the perfect storm of apathy.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• The only thing worse than Stanford’s on-court performance is the apathy that has come to engulf the program.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• The bank’s shares reacted with apathy, falling a fraction of a percent on a day when most bank stocks rose.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• The vice president rarely references her gender on the campaign trail, but her key supporters are starting to make more direct appeals to male voters, hoping to overcome ingrained sexism — or just plain apathy — as election day looms.
  — Will Weissert and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024