nonchalant

Example Sentences

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Heading into the results, investors were a bit more nonchalant about threats to the economy.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

The dandy may have many names, but we know him when we see him—he projects the aristocrat’s “superior air and nonchalant ennui,” Mr. Andersson writes, only a little too much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

I wasn’t sure what scared me more, the thought of the tourists being attacked, or the way they were all so nonchalant in the face of danger creeping right up to them.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025

One episode explores how Gehry, about a decade older than the others, both profoundly influenced and often overshadowed the group — a reality that was perhaps reinforced by his nonchalant dominance in the photo itself.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

That would please Uncle Matthew anyway, Kit thought, bewildered and a little dismayed to glimpse under Nat’s nonchalant surface a flash of the same passion that made life in the Wood household so uncomfortable.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare