Example sentences for: ambiguous

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

  • Many papers around the world contrasted China's ambiguous response to last week's earthquake in Taiwan with Greece's no-strings-attached aid to rival Turkey after that nation's August temblor.

  • This is clumsily phrased: The identity of the "other side" is ambiguous.

  • This makes the black intellectual not only a propagandist but also an apologist, at times, of the most hypocritical sort, blowing up trivialities while ignoring profundities because of their ambiguous nature, all the while operating with the urges of a philanthropist, discarding merit in the name of equality of space or for "educating" the public in favor of a good cause.

  • I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses.

  • I am not sure that I should have characterized the perpetuation of obsolete or archaic meanings as “counterproductive”: perhaps “wrong,” “misleading,” “ambiguous,” or “old-fashioned” would have been closer to the mark; phrased another way, I must agree that people ought to use words in their current senses if they expect to be understood.


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