Example sentences for: ambiguity

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

  • But such is the nervous rigidity of our current aesthetic climate, where ambiguity is tolerated on neither the left nor the right, that when a smaller version of Levinthal's series "Blackface" opened in New York, at the Janet Borden Gallery in SoHo, some reviewers followed the institute's lead in thinking that only two questions needed to be posed about these photographs: 1) Are the memorabilia themselves offensive?

  • This ambiguity could have extended to Rose , coming either from the flower or from the Teutonic for horse.

  • ' The English word virgin itself comes from the Latin virgo , which can mean `virgin,' `maiden,' or `young woman' and which reflects the same ambiguity as the other languages.

  • The ambiguity is intentional: Visits to prostitutes are not reasons for a court-martial, but long-term affairs and affairs between soldiers are considered dangerous and deserving of punishment.

  • A more serious semantic problem is the ambiguity regarding paddle tennis and platform tennis . Here there is a yawning gulf of misunderstanding between the aficionados, who insist on a precise distinction, and the thousands on the fringes who sloppily apply the term paddle tennis to both sports.


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