APATHETIC in a Sentence

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But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigour of brain.

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 Meanings and Examples of APATHETIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
apathetic
 a.  feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
Classic Sentence:
1  He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  Eustacia's manner had become of late almost apathetic.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
3  Linton lay on the settle, sole tenant, sucking a stick of sugar-candy, and pursuing my movements with apathetic eyes.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  The race thus outraged must find out the facts of this awful hurling of men into eternity on supposition, and give them to the indifferent and apathetic country.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  Awoke late, read the Scriptures but was apathetic.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
6  stood where he was and watched them through the open double doorway, the last to go, of course, was the apathetic Rabensteiner who had broken into no more than an elegant trot.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
Example Sentence:
1  An individual who is passive, utterly apathetic and withdrawn from community life is no true citizen.
2  She felt too apathetic even to move.
3  Young people today are so apathetic about politics.
4  But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigour of brain.
5  But he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigor of brain.
6  The anger intensified after the team's lacklustre World Cup performances; Mr Ozil is notoriously languid, at times almost apathetic.