Example sentences for: ambiguities

How can you use “ambiguities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He gives a deep description of the tensions and ambiguities of Yeats' shabby-genteel Protestant origins.

  • Professor David Daiches of Edinburgh leads off with a splendid introduction on Boswell's ambiguities, writing about the biography that “the subject understood the biographer more profoundly than the biographer understood the subject.”

  • Other ambiguities occur when vernacular expressions begin to invade High English.

  • Boswell's ambiguities and internal contrarieties are neatly shown in his treatment of William Robertson, Principal of Edinburgh University, praising his literary skills but inveighing against his theology.

  • "Inconsistencies and ambiguities, real or imagined, are to journalists as catnip to the cat," shrugged the New York Daily News , justifying the drug story's persistence.


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