Example sentences for: vague

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

  • He also takes whacks at those old chestnuts and/or and ss . Under the heaviest duress, such as the threat of boiling in ink, lawyers might relinquish all these; but they will fight to the bitter end and finally die at the barricades before surrendering their whereases . Never mind that, the author says; Whereas is consistently vague, meaning variously `the fact is,' `although,' `considering that,' `on the contrary,' and `that being the case,' with many shadings in between.

  • With no written culture to document it, the pre-European history of the Inuit and other early peoples is a vague archaeological patchwork of bones, stones, and artifacts.

  • While Michelangelo's homosexuality has long been assumed--the Victorian critic Walter Pater wrote of his "vague and wayward loves"--there is no evidence that Cavalieri reciprocated his feelings.

  • My vague desire to live in Africa got swapped, unfairly I felt, for my wife's even vaguer one to live in Asia.

  • The glory of the book--of most of Greene's books--is in the dialogue, in which all that vague spiritual yearning coalesces into candor so biting that it still has the power to shock.


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