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
• But that ambiguity is part of what drew de la Reguera to the project in the first place.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 21 May 2021
• By the time the 3-D artists get to the map, there’s little ambiguity about how a space should look and feel.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• 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
• But that would be a dicey thing to do in our era, so the film backs off from any ambiguity.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• This kind of ambiguity lay at the heart of the Y.S.L. trial.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
• To play the ambiguity was the most challenging and fun part of being part of the show.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
• Even the cover image of a boy with a quill across his face adds to the ambiguity.
  — Diane Scharper, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• There’s a lot of ambiguity baked into the film, in terms of how far Cassie will go.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Dec. 2020
• Shades of gray in this black-and-white film, of course, are a play on the idea of racial ambiguity that is so central to the story.
  — Imani Perry, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2021
• The game is designed to have a lot, to overuse my favorite term, a lot of ambiguity.
  — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2020
• When there has been ambiguity in the law, Justice Ginsburg asked, what was the point of this law?
  — Jess Bravin and Theo Francis, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
• 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
• There's a moral ambiguity to the Bond of the 21st century.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• There is no tonal ambiguity in Episode Three of Lee’s epic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• 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
• For one thing, there’s no ambiguity to the fact that Connor wants Olivia and Olivia only.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
• The ambiguity of the process has sparked speculation around who gets a bag and why.
  — Joan Kennedy, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
• There’s no ambiguity, no pretense, just a lunch pail and a hard hat.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
• 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
• That sounds more like good and evil than moral ambiguity.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020
• Nowhere is this ambiguity more noticeable than in the case of viruses like the one that has confined so many of us to our homes.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
• Down the road in Ann Arbor, there was no less ambiguity.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2020
• 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’s no ambiguity about this: Oceania’s ships are designed for adults.
  — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2025
• The complexity of this picture, the uncertainty of the support, the ambiguity of the outcome, all are reminders that people had to be persuaded (often, more than once) to believe in the cause of liberty and to light its spark.
  — Literary Hub, 17 July 2025