How to Use indiscriminate in a Sentence

indiscriminate

adjective
  • She has been indiscriminate in choosing her friends.
  • He objects to the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
  • They participated in the indiscriminate slaughter of countless innocent victims.
  • But they aren't always taught the extent of the indiscriminate killings.
    The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2021
  • In the room, on the Democrats’ side of the aisle, lawmakers leaped to their feet and pounded out their applause with indiscriminate gusto.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The great market sell-off of 2022 has been indiscriminate.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
  • If the culture averted its gaze from his indiscriminate bluster, what would be the loss?
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In school shootings where the killing is indiscriminate, Trump said shooters have in many cases passed by classrooms that were closed and locked.
    Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
  • But looting and indiscriminate killing spread throughout the area on April 15.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • First, eastern Ukraine has borne the brunt of the indiscriminate destruction that Putin has unleashed.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The Russians’ shelling was constant and indiscriminate, Bida said, and became round-the-clock in the days before the Russian retreat from the Kyiv region.
    Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The decision has been met with opposition due to the indiscriminate harm to civilians the weapons could cause.
    Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • Count me among the people who typically dump some indiscriminate amount in and move on.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • But the indiscriminate nature of the air campaign, and its widespread impact on civilians, is unique to the military.
    Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • But it’s become a tsunami of social change and tsunamis are indiscriminate.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2021
  • In the small, southeastern state of Kayah, where a rebel movement has been met with indiscriminate military airstrikes, household income has halved since 2021 — the most of any state.
    Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Maybe so, but what’s placed on the back burner is the indiscriminate nature of WikiLeaks, and the issue of whether governments should ever have secrets.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
  • After enough of these indiscriminate changes, programs on the disk stopped loading.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 May 2023
  • The Wagner Group has been accused of indiscriminate killings in Mali.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Word that a New York museum held children’s toys from that day was a tangible reminder of the indiscriminate killing.
    Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • James Kaiser There is disarming beauty in the indiscriminate chaos of the natural world.
    Sunset Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • They have also been asked to remove weeds and avoid the indiscriminate use of pesticides and fertilisers.
    Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Adams said the money isn’t being showered on the port in an indiscriminate way: As with federal grants in general, its use will have to be mapped out, approved and tracked.
    al, 11 Mar. 2022
  • To put it simply, startup founders who have a lot of capital saved at SVB could lose access to that capital for an indiscriminate amount of time.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Taveras went to spring training with a chance to win the leadoff spot, but an indiscriminate approach at the plate quickly ended that experiment.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Parts of the country have been without power throughout much of the winter because of indiscriminate Russian shelling.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
  • And in such an indiscriminate sell-off, by default, the most speculative assets suffer the most.
    Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Russia and Ukraine have not signed the treaty, but use of the munitions in populated areas may be seen as an indiscriminate attack.
    New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • In the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, the United States was indiscriminate in its use of violence.
    New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Saudi Arabia might then launch harsher and indiscriminate attacks on Houthis and the dominoes could start falling.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024

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