How to Use apolitical in a Sentence

apolitical

adjective
Definition of apoliticalnext
  • Although both of her parents are politicians, she's completely apolitical.
  • Which brings us to the caveat: Most gangs are apolitical.
    — David Pyrooz and, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The idea that judges could be apolitical doesn’t make sense.
    — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • That’s the kind of pap that the mostly apolitical people in the middle want to hear from Democrats.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • There were a few reasons the US pushed this idea of free and apolitical science.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • There is no such thing as an apolitical artist, Thomas Mann once said.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • How did the Cold War spawn this idea that science is apolitical?
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • This is not to say that even the most anodyne jokes are apolitical.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The project is something of a departure for Pera, whose act tends to be apolitical.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 16 June 2017
  • Winning is apolitical Uno, however, is not meant to be played in a hands-across-the-aisle style.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And his current position is meant to be apolitical and to serve as a moral compass for the nation.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2021
  • When talking about Candy’s apolitical view of most things, Carr reminds us of what was going on in the world around her.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The good guys and bad guys are both thoroughly apolitical.
    — Luke Winkie, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The first lady briefly touted her husband’s budget plan but the tone of the event was largely apolitical.
    — Kevin McGill, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In truth, there’s no such thing as apolitical rap music.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
  • But the Fall 2018 runways, from New York to Paris, felt strangely apolitical and unreflective of the world around us.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2018
  • No show needs to address the President, but no show can be apolitical.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In South Africa, when a new chief justice was appointed a few months ago, there were questions about whether the court was apolitical or even could be.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The show tends to be formalist and apolitical: melodies are melodies, chords are chords, patterns recur across the centuries.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • And there is no apolitical way to answer that question.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Until Michelle Williams took to the stage tonight at the 2019 Emmy Awards, the evening was shaping up to be relatively apolitical.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2019
  • According to Wirth, Chevron is apolitical and tries to work with both parties.
    — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Desire isn’t a spontaneous, apolitical passion; it’s shaped by the world around us, and by what we’ve been taught to value.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Levy, the club owner, with slicked hair and a thick goatee, said his aim was entirely apolitical.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, charlotteobserver, 21 Jan. 2018
  • So, the people in the streets today have a wide range of reasons to oppose the passes, and some are completely apolitical, like most of the Yellow Vests were.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • It's politicized but supposed to be apolitical, and there have been a number of large restructurings of the post office in the past 50 years.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2020
  • But don’t confuse this statement with thinking that the artist is apolitical.
    — Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Cotton was a member of the Old Guard in between tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the book was, despite his hard-right politics, apolitical.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
  • The physical and psychological damage from the five years of siege is both vast and apolitical.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The end of Facebook’s third-party fact-checking system is unfortunate, but the system wasn’t so vital to the health and wellness of the platform for a simple reason: most of the content on the site was apolitical.
    — Scott Nover, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025

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