How to Use aloofness in a Sentence

aloofness

noun
  • Your sudden aloofness could hurt a loved one!
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The bombast of the song clashes with the aloofness of her style.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • An image of aloofness has clung to him, despite attempts to bury it.
    — Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But this is also a city that takes its aloofness with as much seriousness as its artistry.
    — Dana O'Neil, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
  • Dani doesn’t question his aloofness, but talks to him about feeling parentless.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • On that same note, writing in a passive voice could possibly be a sign of weakness, or aloofness.
    — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • This aloofness can spring from an inability to read and relate to others.
    — Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • His formal courtliness and aloofness on the page are largely at odds with today’s young poets.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
  • To this group, the aloofness of science is a smoke screen behind which the inevitable emotions and ideologies hide.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Did the woman who turned aloofness into an art form really cook dinner in a novelty apron?
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Some of the leading ’68ers took him as a model of aloofness from the corrupting tide of consumerism.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The dolphin’s own aloofness may have kept him safe from the kind of harassment suffered by Dave and Dusty.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • Sante, even freed up now to be a chattier and more easygoing version of herself, retains a bit of her aloofness.
    — Carl Swanson, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
  • As aloofness fell out of favor, owners set out to make their lobbies and courtyards places to linger and enjoy rather than simply pass through in awe.
    — Roger Vincentstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • My fear manifested as aloofness.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • My fear manifested as aloofness.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But also, don’t mistake their lack of desperation for aloofness either.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Her sensitivity and aloofness set her apart from others in her family.
    — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 28 June 2023
  • The camera feasted on her long, elegant features and an expression that could combine aloofness and mirth.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • Reached by phone, the father comes off as a cold, uncaring man, and Pacino portrays him with chilling aloofness.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
  • On Cabaret’s opposition to fascism (and aloofness towards it).
    — Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
  • This brought emotions to the surface and released us all from the aloofness that occurred when Aquarius season asked us to think about the bigger picture.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Cooper’s reputation for aloofness and his discomfort with the full price of relevance has blunted his impact over the years.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • What the rise of 'chalance' says about dating People have equated aloofness with coolness since long before the internet came around.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • This apparent aloofness persisted as the new management settled in.
    — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The aloofness of pure mathematics and its reverence for thinking infused itself into physics.
    — Alec Wilkinson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • There was a certain assurance and aloofness to the outfits that inspired both curiosity and confidence.
    — Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Who better than Alain Delon — dashing and with a hint of growing aloofness — to represent a man of such multitudes?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
  • She’s achieved a seemingly insurmountable feat by somehow cracking a new shade of awkward, stoner-y, lovable aloofness.
    — Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Techler, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Pedestrians scurried away with the typical aloofness New Yorkers adopt as a means of self-preservation.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023

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