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.
• The one thing where guidelines are a bit ambiguous is use of a face mask.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
• 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 book's ending is much more ambiguous than the film's.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• But the agencies have been ambiguous about their plans.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• But the Court’s change is more ambiguous than first seems.
  — Aziz Huq, Time, 6 July 2023
• This isn’t a week to leave your hunger drifting and ambiguous.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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 is the nature of ambiguous laws in one-party states.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
• Something that was so ambiguous then is very clear now.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The stagflation of the past, so obvious to us now, was ambiguous then.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• The ending of the film is far more ambiguous than the novel’s conclusion.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• So the value of the ranking enterprise to those who use them is ambiguous at best.
  — Abba Krieger, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2020
• Perrin, on the other hand, is a lot more ambiguous to me.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2021
• Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
  — Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
• What draws you to stories about identity and the ambiguous nature of it?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Quan's background in the film, on the other hand, is left ambiguous.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Even then, the reference is ambiguous and implies the law might no longer be in place.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Several states have laws on the books that are ambiguous and untested in court.
  — Steve Beynon, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Truth be told, humans run aground on ambiguous language all the time.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018
• Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 17 July 2017
• So the whole thing was ambiguous by design, but no, there was nothing reshot of that.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• But with the rise of cable news, campaign cash has played a smaller and even more ambiguous role.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2019
• If to dream is to make sense of ambiguous bodily signals, then the answer is yes.
  — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• The circumstances often are more ambiguous, the footage less telling.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• The drug’s ambiguous legal status as a medicine will persist for years.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Time, 7 June 2018
• Perhaps as a result, the statute’s language can be ambiguous to the point of vagueness.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024