How to Use ambiguous in a Sentence

ambiguous

adjective

• We were confused by the ambiguous wording of the message.
• He looked at her with an ambiguous smile.
• Due to the ambiguous nature of the question, it was difficult to choose the right answer.
• However, the news is not so good for Max whose fate was kept ambiguous in the finale.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
• Anxiety attack, on the other hand, is a more ambiguous term.
  — Michael MacIntyre, Verywell Health, 4 Dec. 2024
• The racial status of the Californios was, in fact, ambiguous.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
• This song is specific — there’s nothing ambiguous about the sentiment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
• The latest report paints an ambiguous picture of an economy that has become a focal point in the final days of a high-stakes presidential race.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• If the goals of the project are ambiguous or not communicated properly, the end result will be misalignment and a failure in stakeholders’ eyes.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• This was later pulled back and made more ambiguous, but still, the setting and enemy mecha do pretty much squarely place it before the game even if the story elements are now less specific.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
• With hyperautomation, the answer to the debatable question becomes more ambiguous and requires more analysis and thought.
  — Gary Fowler, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• In comparison, the legal basis for wide-scale student loan cancellation is arguably ambiguous.
  — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• The theme is the absurd Hunger Games of modern fertility and maybe the evils of the patriarchy, or something; the movie's targets seem both ambiguous and broad.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 June 2021
• Due to the ambiguous language in his documents, his girl friend and her children sued, and 6 years later and after the payment of millions in estate taxes, his estate was finally settled.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Whether or not Margo was actually having an affair with her teenage neighbor is intended to be ambiguous, according to Feldman.
  — TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
• The stakes in the east are enormous; the stakes in Kursk Oblast are ambiguous at best.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• The book's ending is much more ambiguous than the film's.
  — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• But the Court’s change is more ambiguous than first seems.
  — Aziz Huq, Time, 6 July 2023
• Some of the phrases are very clear, but a lot of them are kind of ambiguous.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• The one thing where guidelines are a bit ambiguous is use of a face mask.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
• While there’s much to chew on throughout, the film’s ambiguous last few scenes trust us to be the judge.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
• The secret is to make ambiguous statements about a wide range of events, and some of them will stick.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 11 June 2022
• This isn’t a week to leave your hunger drifting and ambiguous.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
• Quan's background in the film, on the other hand, is left ambiguous.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• But the agencies have been ambiguous about their plans.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• The stagflation of the past, so obvious to us now, was ambiguous then.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• This is the nature of ambiguous laws in one-party states.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
• Perrin, on the other hand, is a lot more ambiguous to me.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2021
• The world of Osten Ard is not morally ambiguous; there is right, and there is wrong.
  — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
• So the whole thing was ambiguous by design, but no, there was nothing reshot of that.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025