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.
• Sarah felt quite lost and unclear and ambiguous in a way.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Dec. 2025
• But Smith says even that memo was ambiguous.
  — NPR, 2 Dec. 2025
• The one thing where guidelines are a bit ambiguous is use of a face mask.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
• This isn’t a week to leave your hunger drifting and ambiguous.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
• Some of the phrases are very clear, but a lot of them are kind of ambiguous.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• What has the cast said about the ambiguous ending?
  — Caroline Blair, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• At times, though, there’s nothing ambiguous or veiled in his work.
  — Anastasia Tsioulcas, New York Times, 24 July 2025
• Does the book keep it equally ambiguous?
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026
• While there’s much to chew on throughout, the film’s ambiguous last few scenes trust us to be the judge.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
• Truth be told, humans run aground on ambiguous language all the time.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018
• How this will work in practice is also ambiguous, as well as who will keep the peace.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
• So the whole thing was ambiguous by design, but no, there was nothing reshot of that.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• This is disgust at its most ancient and least ambiguous.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
• Quan's background in the film, on the other hand, is left ambiguous.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Even in agencies that have, some policies are weak or ambiguous.
  — Ben Jones, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
• Even in agencies that have, some policies are weak or ambiguous.
  — Ben Jones, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
• 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
• And even then, it was couched in the polite, ambiguous language.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
• The images are, at best, ambiguous.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• But the 14th Lama has been ambiguous over whether there would be a new one at all.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 July 2025
• Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
  — Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
• Several states have laws on the books that are ambiguous and untested in court.
  — Steve Beynon, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Even then, the reference is ambiguous and implies the law might no longer be in place.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• When a statute is ambiguous, Congress has left a gap for the agency to fill.
  — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• This was no fleeting shadow or ambiguous blur.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
• Near her waist, the man’s hand is held up in a seemingly ambiguous gesture.
  — Samuel Reilly, 1843, 3 July 2019
• 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