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
• To play the ambiguity was the most challenging and fun part of being part of the show.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• But there is a trace of ambiguity in the final moments.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
• There is ambiguity in exceptions for the life of the mother, too.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
• By the end, all snaps into place, though not without some queasy ambiguities and the outings of evil machinations on the part of at least one of the parents.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2025
• 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
• While fans have been frustrated by the team’s record and the ambiguity of the club’s future, some remain hopeful.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2021
• The strategic ambiguity piece of this comes into play as well.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• That ambiguity continues some weeks later in the library, where Gene has arranged for Henry to be assigned as a worker.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
• The efficacy of denials is reduced in the face of overwhelming evidence—suggesting that the way to counter ambiguity may be to produce unambiguous proof.
  — Roseanne McManus, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2025