How to Use asocial in a Sentence

asocial

adjective
  • To think of the brain as an asocial or pre-social organ is thus deeply mistaken.
    — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • This remarkably asocial act was his social life in a nutshell.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2022
  • In 20 years, my field has gone from thinking of bacteria as asocial recluses to seeing them as at least being trilingual.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2014
  • Marechera wrote much of the book while living in a tent in a meadow near Oxford, from which he had been expelled for violent and asocial behavior.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2020
  • David Scheel Scientists have long thought that octopus are largely asocial creatures.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2016
  • The practice of art seemed an asocial, even antisocial activity.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • Jobs that are asocial and repetitive, such as fast-food preparers or insurance adjusters, are likely to be taken over in their entirety.
    — Kai-Fu Lee, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • There seems to me to be a value in keeping our dreams private and asocial, particularly in a world where social technologies burrow ever deeper into our conscious lives.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • Man’s ancestors were, for a time, dull, relatively asocial vegetarians.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • These asocial impulses are native to any group dynamic, but the conduct nurtured by social media — Twitter, in particular — verges on sociopathy.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • The raw water trend is consistent with other asocial behaviors by venture capitalists using their wealth to eschew civic responsibility and insulate themselves from social problems.
    — Christine Manganaro, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
  • If the American trend is positive in the last half of April, the president will be able to shift from being the custodian of an asocial America to the bell-ringer calling the country cautiously back to work.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Since then, his body of work, which offers a new understanding of asocial prisoners and life in Dachau after the camp’s April 1945 liberation, has experienced a resurgence of interest.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
  • The third key message concludes leaders should be cautious about the negative impacts of power imbalance, leading to asocial interests and selfish actions, which weaken the effect of technological similarity on post-acquisition innovation.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Nick Reiner, who reportedly has been diagnosed with serious mental health disorder, accompanied his parents to the party and reportedly caused a scene with his unsettling, asocial and erratic behavior, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026

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