INDISCRIMINATE in a Sentence

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Sweeping terrible down the tide of battle he wakens fierce indiscriminate carnage, and flings loose all the reins of wrath.

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 Meanings and Examples of INDISCRIMINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
indiscriminate
 a.  choosing at random; not marked by fine distinctions
Classic Sentence:
1  The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another's backs, until Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
2  Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  Sweeping terrible down the tide of battle he wakens fierce indiscriminate carnage, and flings loose all the reins of wrath.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
4  Furthermore, to no class is the indiscriminate endorsement of the recent course of the South toward Negroes more nauseating than to the best thought of the South.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
5  Beside him Honey Wilkes, so called because she indiscriminately addressed everyone from her father to the field hands by that endearment, fidgeted and giggled as she called greetings to the arriving guests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  You admired their frocks or their babies indiscriminately and teased about beaux and complimented husbands and giggled modestly and denied that you had any charms at all compared with theirs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
8  It is not a thing to be used indiscriminately, but it is good upon occasion: as now, for instance.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  But the more he shot, the more he felt disgraced in the eyes of Veslovsky, who kept popping away merrily and indiscriminately, killing nothing, and not in the slightest abashed by his ill success.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
10  A casual and indiscriminating observer, in passing, might not cast a second glance upon the figure.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  Even so-called 'tactical' nuclear weapons are indiscriminate in their effect.
2  The indiscriminate use of fertilisers is damaging to the environment.
3  She disapproved of her son's indiscriminate television viewing and decided to restrict him to educational programs.
4  Jesus himself seems to accept dinner invitations indiscriminately, often eating with social outcasts.
5  Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population.
6  I'll nail them for indiscrimination against my religion.