How To Use Indifferently In A Sentence
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Both Thomas and Campbell were out for the rest of the day: their exertions were a success, though only temporary, for the sail raised and lowered indifferently As soon as they fixed the pin on the block, someone would have to go up again.
A Furnace Afloat
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We use the word “genius” indifferently in speaking of the tutelar demon of a town of antiquity, or an artist, or a musician.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Barbaste, pren garde a la gatte qué bay gatoua: "-- 'Millar of Barbaste, beware of the cat' (_gatte_ means, indifferently, _cat_ or _mine_) 'which is going to kitten' (_gatoua_ has the meaning of _blowing up_, as well.)
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
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Before we proceed further, however, it may be necessary that we should give a brief attention to the lexicography of these two terms profess and confess, as English words; especially as our translators have rendered the Greek word omologia by these two words, indifferently, as though they were equivalents; and thus the English reader is
Confession a Fundamental Doctrine of the Gospel Economy:
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No very definite custom or practice seems to be followed; the most common is, that several matrons preside as midwives in the lodge of the parturient, which is, especially in delayed cases, filled to suffocation with indifferently solicitous (?) relations and friends.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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Julia wandered about the room, glancing indifferently at the bookcase, pointing out the best way of repairing the gateleg table, plumping herself down in the ragged arm-chair to see if it was comfortable, and examining the absurd twelve-hour clock with a sort of tolerant amusement.
Nineteen Eighty-four
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Wheat and Indian corn had grown well; barley he described as ‘indifferently good’; but pease were ‘not worth the gathering.’
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The relative absence of conventional musical tropes doesn't mean, though, that the group approaches compositional matters indifferently.
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Of all the fragrant blossoms that haunt the woods, I know none so exquisite as that night-scented orchis which is called indifferently, the butterfly or the lily of the valley.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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As far as I am concerned, Sarah Palin is indifferently ignorant, and not worthy of further attention or higher office until she can prover herself more worthy.
Meghan McCain: "Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won’t comment on publicly."
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Attention has shifted rather to the whole prob - lem of the autonomy of the value domain, which, interestingly enough, is indifferently termed the ques - tion of the relation between the ought and the is, and that between fact and value, as if they were the same problem.
RIGHT AND GOOD
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` ` What do you hask for it? '' asked the planter indifferently, designating the house by a wave of his whip.
Old Creole Days
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For the first offence, he was banished to his appanage of Dauphine, which he governed with much sagacity; for the second he was driven into absolute exile, and forced to throw himself on the mercy, and almost on the charity, of the Duke of Burgundy and his son; where he enjoyed hospitality, afterwards indifferently requited, until the death of his father in 1461.
Quentin Durward
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He stresses the last word, and I stare at him indifferently.
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He dreed his weird," said Mrs. McLane indifferently.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
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Actinozoa include such animals as the Coelentera, which are fixed, and the Echinoderms, which have a central point and move indifferently along any radial axis; their form differs from the strobiloid mainly in having radiate rather than spiral symmetry.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In the miserably high-number conapt building 492 on the outskirts of Marilyn Monroe, New Jersey, Richard Hnatt ate breakfast indifferently while, with something greater than indifference, he glanced over the morning's homeopape's weather-syndrome readings of the previous day.
Genre Fiction
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They indifferently accepted the German Pandect law as the common law of Germany.
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Thirdly, two nerves also or appendages of the brain, for they do not go beyond the limits of the skull, are moved by the particles of terrestrial bodies, separated and flying in the air, not indeed by all particles indifferently, but by those only that are sufficiently subtle and penetrating to enter the pores of the bone we call the spongy, when drawn into the nostrils, and thus to reach the nerves.
The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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At length, yielding to the requests of my friends, that all might be made participators in my labors, and partly moved by the envy of others, who, receiving my views with uncandid minds and understanding them indifferently, have essayed to traduce me publicly, I have moved to commit these things to the press, in order that all may be enabled to form an opinion both of me and my labours.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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The secret police at the station looked on indifferently as I extricated myself from my Ostyak fur coats.
My Life
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After divers long and well delivered Orations, as also very faire and courteous behaviour, they had indifferently pacified her complainings: they beganne to discourse and commune with themselves, which of them had most right and title to
The Decameron
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Porter Pinckard," Miss Breckenridge answered, indifferently, before entering into a confidential exchange of brevities with
The Heart of Rachael
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He pushed three greasy, black-nailed fingers up the sleeve of his overall and indifferently scratched his arm.
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Secondly, that the use of exhortation and dehortation lieth only where a man is to speak to a multitude, because when the speech is addressed to one, he may interrupt him and examine his reasons more rigorously than can be done in a multitude; which are too many to enter into dispute and dialogue with him that speaketh indifferently to them all at once.
Leviathan
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There the _biscacha_, or _viscacha_ -- as it is indifferently spelt -- plays pretty much the same part as the rabbit in our northern lands.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
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I kick indifferently among the jetsam that has sedimented up against the curb somebody once painted white and then forgot about.
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` ` Institutes and substitutes are synonymous words, Mr. Butler, and used indifferently as such in deeds of tailzie, as you may see in Balfour's Practiques, or Dallas of St. Martin's
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The name, however, still lives, but is applied to rose madder, which is indeed indifferently called _Rose Madder_, _Pink
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face; and said softly, as he drooped his head, “My son, my Ostap!”
Taras Bulba
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The door of the pesthouse had opened abruptly and a short, portly man roughly dressed, unshaved and florid of complexion, appeared on the threshold a moment, eyed the approaching girls indifferently, glanced searchingly toward town, and again vanished within, closing the door behind him.
Tabitha's Vacation
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Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens, which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
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It may be necessary to explain to the uninitiated reader that the terms "he" and "she" are indifferently used at sea, in reference to craft, but when the masculine pronoun is applied it is understood to refer more especially to the _commanding officer_ of the vessel; while the pronoun "she" refers to the _vessel herself_.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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she shrugged indifferently
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If you are wondering whether the combined talent on display can improve the pedestrian material, the answer is indifferently negative.
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He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
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All further ideas about it, such as the oneness or manyness of the spiritual substance on which it is based, are therefore void of intelligible meaning; and propositions touching such ideas may be indifferently affirmed or denied.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
Marine microbes
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It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Following our gazes, he looked at it too and shrugged indifferently.
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The women stare indifferently as catcalls and whistling burst loudly from the dark interior of a taxi.
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Ordinarily, comets are conspicuous at their perihelia, as being their shortest distances from the sun, which is the focus of their orbit, and inasmuch as a parabola is but an ellipse with its axis indefinitely produced, for some short portion of its pathway the orbit may be indifferently considered either one or the other; but in this particular case the professor was right in adopting the supposition of its being parabolic.
Off on a Comet
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In very short time after, those two infected parts were growne mortiferous, and would disperse abroad indifferently, to all parts of the body; whereupon, such was the quality of the disease, to shew it selfe by blacke or blew spottes, which would appeare on the armes of many, others on their thighes, and every part else of the body: in some great and few, in others small and thicke.
The Decameron
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He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
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The national government felt no legal obligation to protect antislavery activists and, in truth, reacted indifferently to attacks upon them.
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For first my booke tuchheht not your graces person in especiall, neyther yit is it preiudiciall till any libertie of the realme yf the tyme and my Writing be indifferently considered.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
Marine microbes
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The Pythagorean doctrine that one soul can not only transmigrate from man to man, from man to beast, but also indifferently to plants, serves as the basis for the soul's secular progress.
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The Pythagorean doctrine that one soul can not only transmigrate from man to man, from man to beast, but also indifferently to plants, serves as the basis for the soul's secular progress.
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Relying on argument or anecdote for their appeal, these books included only a handful of indifferently reproduced black-and-white plates.
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Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens, which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
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A huge black-and-brown mutt flung itself against the wire at her; something that looked vaguely like a corgi looked at her indifferently.
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All these results are most prominently obtained with a pure gas flame, a stearine, wax, or tallow candle, very indifferently with a spirit flame, and least from a Bunsen flame rich in oxygen.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
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He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face, and said softly, as he drooped his head, ` ` My son, my Ostap! ''
Taras Bulba and Other Tales
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Having thus meditated, he resolved to make sure of his owne share first, and remembring the rich Ring, whereof they had tolde him: forthwith hee tooke it from the Archbishops finger, finding it indifferently fitte for his owne.
The Decameron
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It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Some of them talk indifferently about intercourse and interstate trade.
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a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former ....
Walden
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The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former ....
Walden
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Poo! poo!" said Captain Pharo, turning the whole flower indifferently to his questioner, and drawing a match with a slight, genteel uplifting of the leg; "I smoke, as the 'postle says, on all' ccasions t 'all men, in season an' outer season, an '' specially when I'm a darn min 'ter.
Vesty of the Basins
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Mr. Pinchin could understand French, though he spoke it but indifferently; but he, being fairly Primed, and in one of his Obstinate Moods, musters up his best parleyvoo, and tells the Ancient with the Golden Key (and I saw that he had another one hung round his neck by a parcel chain, and conjectured him to be a High Chamberlain at least) to go to the Devil.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Nurse young lady answers indifferently: " It doesn an a bitan a bit!
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In this the term _altar_ is alone made use of; but in the first Liturgy of King Edward the Sixth, published in 1549, the altar or table whereupon the Lord’s Supper was ministered is indifferently called _the altar_, _the Lord’s table_, _God’s board_.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
