INDIFFERENCE in a Sentence

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230 example sentences for INDIFFERENCE, such as:

1. She showed total indifference to his fate.
2. She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
3. The only weapon left in his armoury was indifference.
4. Sarah was absolutely indifferent to him, and it hurt.
5. Laugh, make, quarrel, cry, now I need is indifferent.

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 Meanings and Examples of INDIFFERENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
indifference
 n.  unconcern; disinterest; lack of enthusiasm
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  So she swallowed her wrath with poor grace and pretended indifference.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  "It's a matter of supreme indifference to me whether you come or not," said Scarlett, putting on her bonnet and going home in a huff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  In the weeks that followed her first party, Scarlett was hard put to keep up her pretense of supreme indifference to public opinion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  After a miserable while, Scarlett's pretended indifference gave way to the real thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  Contemplating the suave indifference with which he generally treated her, Scarlett frequently wondered, but with no real curiosity, why he had married her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
8  She maintained an air of cool indifference that could speedily change to icy formality if anyone even dared hint about the matter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  She had, to a shade, the exact manner between victory and defeat: every insinuation was shed without an effort by the bright indifference of her manner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
10  It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
11  And under her sense of the collective indifference came the acuter pang of hopes deceived.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
12  But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
13  She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
14  In supposing that only she was observant Carol was ignorant, misled by the indifference of cities.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  She wanted to hide in the generous indifference of cities.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
2  The only thing she could do was to assume an air of indifference.
3  She showed total indifference to his fate.
4  The only weapon left in his armoury was indifference.
5  The more recent members of staff regard the change in corporate culture with a certain indifference.
6  She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
7  There must be, in spite of all indifference and hostility of nature to human interests, some congruity of nature with man or life could not exist.
8  The court did issue a stinging rebuke for what it calls their indifference to their constitutional duties.
9  The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
10  Sarah was absolutely indifferent to him, and it hurt.
11  It is quite indifferent to me whether you go or stay.
12  Laugh, make, quarrel, cry, now I need is indifferent.
13  I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful.
14  People have become indifferent to the suffering of others.
15  We didn't like the restaurant much - the food was indifferent and the service rather slow.