How to Use ambiguity in a Sentence

ambiguity

noun

• To clear up any ambiguity, Claire and Owen have a steamy kiss at the top of the film.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 26 May 2022
• What Shawn did was true to what the show was about, which was shades of gray and ambiguity.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• There’s a lot of ambiguity to that scene, and that’s what works about it.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• To play the ambiguity was the most challenging and fun part of being part of the show.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
• The Heir and the Spare—there was no judgment about it, but also no ambiguity.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
• Robert heard him out but shot the idea down: there was no horror twist yet—and, worse, no ambiguity.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• But learning to live with ambiguity can go a long way in helping get us to the end of this crisis.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
• The ambiguity of the process has sparked speculation around who gets a bag and why.
  — Joan Kennedy, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
• This is an ambitious movie that takes swings and plays with a fair amount of ambiguity.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• In the play and the more successful photographs, the ambiguity comes through.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The ambiguities of the Magi’s apparition remain a lesson in whom to call wise, and why to call them so.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• The great efficacy of such a threat lies not in its use but entirely in the threat, the ambiguity.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
• There is ambiguity in exceptions for the life of the mother, too.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
• If this weren’t bad enough, there are also some ambiguities in the syntax.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• Scholz stressed the need to keep some ambiguity about sanctions to press Russia to deescalate.
  — David McHugh, ajc, 8 Feb. 2022
• The strategic ambiguity piece of this comes into play as well.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• In the absence of the Supreme Judge, the world suddenly appeared in its fearsome ambiguity. . . .
  — Robyn Davidson, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• There's some ambiguity about what might be real and what might be entirely in Marc and Steven's head.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 5 May 2022
• The judge disagreed with that, finding there was no ambiguity about whether the character of Pascal was to blame.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• Because of that ambiguity, the onus is usually on workers to make the case for support.
  — Laura Casey, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
• While the author is anything but subtle, these spots of ambiguity pervade the book as well.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• The reason for this ban is due to the ambiguity surrounding the legality of delta 8.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
• But the spirit of ambiguity and simplicity that shines through in the book were my guiding lights, and time was my enabler.
  — Rebecca Hall, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• The purpose of strategic ambiguity is to leave doubt in the mind of a potential aggressor.
  — Readers, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
• The rules are also rife with gray areas and ambiguities.
  — Austin Weinstein, Fortune, 4 June 2023
• But in Japan, with its taste for asymmetry and ambiguity, his work sparked a whole school of followers.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• And the power of images lies less in their arguments than in their ambiguities.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• There’s also some ambiguity about the Bank of England’s next moves.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
• Kingsnorth likes that ambiguity — some viewers see scales, others veins or tree bark.
  — Morgan Meier, Curbed, 14 Dec. 2024
• Trump, though, has taken that ambiguity to another level.
  — Wayne Chang, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025