How to Use apolitical in a Sentence

apolitical

adjective
Definition of apoliticalnext
  • Although both of her parents are politicians, she's completely apolitical.
  • Winning is apolitical Uno, however, is not meant to be played in a hands-across-the-aisle style.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Brewers of this apolitical beverage, though, have been known to throw their weight — and their funds — behind political candidates.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Instead of coastal elites hunting deplorables, Ready or Not offers a more apolitical and primal spectacle: The in-laws hunting a new bride on her wedding night.
    — Ross Douthat, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • 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 is no such thing as an apolitical artist, Thomas Mann once said.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • This is not to say that even the most anodyne jokes are apolitical.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 central bank is staunchly apolitical and doesn’t care about the calendar.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The prospect of an apolitical inquiry into the virus’s origins is dwindling.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • At the core of Pettitt’s frustration seemed to lie a belief that her values were apolitical.
    — Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The idea that the Supreme Court is an apolitical branch of government above the grubbiness of politics has always been quaint.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The Fed, after all, reacts to data and tries to be as apolitical as possible.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The once publicly apolitical singer has become more vocal about her views in recent years, and endorsed Biden in 2020.
    — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Postal Service has long been an apolitical agency, and DeJoy is the first postmaster general in two decades who did not rise up the ranks.
    — TheWeek, 7 May 2020
  • Maciunas had a politics, but most Fluxus art—and Cage’s and Duchamp’s art—is apolitical.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Brats are hot, fun, and apolitical; they’ve been feminized and miniaturized and upgraded to a more consumer-friendly model.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024

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