How to Use ambiguous in a Sentence

ambiguous

adjective

• We were confused by the ambiguous wording of the message.
• He looked at her with an ambiguous smile.
• Due to the ambiguous nature of the question, it was difficult to choose the right answer.
• Many lawmakers have argued the law is too ambiguous and needs to be clarified.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
• The true origins and intentions of this moment are ambiguous!
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Still others give different advice, but all of it ambiguous.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
• In light of atrocity crimes, there is no space for ambiguous or indecisive action.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Between the lines: What had appeared to be a summer slump in the job market now looks more ambiguous — and possibly just a head fake.
  — Neil Irwin, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
• The meaning of the image is ambiguous, but one’s mind travels to the question of who is looking down at the subject in this unblinking way.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• The Tennessee Titans running back’s response was ambiguous, but his grin said it all.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
• What is less ambiguous is the role that some of these figures have played in the effort to reverse 2020’s outcome by other means.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Trump’s stance on the ACA has been inconsistent and ambiguous throughout his campaign.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2024
• Kaplan denied this request, as well, noting that the law only entitles someone to more clarity when a claim is so vague or ambiguous that the defendant can’t prepare a response.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
• That open-ended title is ambiguous for a reason, potentially applying to a few different characters.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
• Chevron holds that, if a statute is silent or ambiguous on a point, the courts should defer to an executive agency’s interpretation, as long as the interpretation is reasonable.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• The book's ending is much more ambiguous than the film's.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• But the Court’s change is more ambiguous than first seems.
  — Aziz Huq, Time, 6 July 2023
• Some of the phrases are very clear, but a lot of them are kind of ambiguous.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• The one thing where guidelines are a bit ambiguous is use of a face mask.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
• The secret is to make ambiguous statements about a wide range of events, and some of them will stick.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 11 June 2022
• This isn’t a week to leave your hunger drifting and ambiguous.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
• Quan's background in the film, on the other hand, is left ambiguous.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• But the agencies have been ambiguous about their plans.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• The stagflation of the past, so obvious to us now, was ambiguous then.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• This is the nature of ambiguous laws in one-party states.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
• Perrin, on the other hand, is a lot more ambiguous to me.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2021
• So the whole thing was ambiguous by design, but no, there was nothing reshot of that.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• The ending of the film is far more ambiguous than the novel’s conclusion.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
  — Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
• But the benefits of its pro-growth investments have been offset somewhat by anti-growth tax increases, Mr Pomerleau says, which makes its long-term economic impact ambiguous.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024