Example sentences for: ambiguity

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

  • Hair color assignments were based upon observation by the attending physician, questioning of the patient and in cases of ambiguity by consultation among the field research staff, the attending physician, and the patient.

  • The ambiguity probably arose from She/He taught her/him everything she/he knows (about something specified), in which the referent of the second She/he is ambiguous: common sense dictates that it refer to the subject of the sentence, not to the her or him, thus yielding the more reasonable She taught him everything she knows or He taught her everything she knows .

  • Maybe now that sexual ambiguity is recognized as a potent force, we can begin to see men in gold embroidery and sweeping folds of silk.

  • The ambiguity of Stauffenberg's attitude toward Jews can be sensed in this inscrutable sentence from a resistance manifesto: "We want a New Order which makes all Germans supporters of the state and guarantees them law and justice, but we scorn the lie of equality and we bow before the hierarchies established by nature."

  • But both also miss his perplexing reality, the ambiguity of a man whose life and work refuse to add up to a simple object lesson.


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