How to Use equivocal in a Sentence

equivocal

adjective

• He responded to reporters' questions with equivocal answers.
• The experiment produced equivocal results.
• Others are equivocal, preferring to focus on the race at hand in Indiana.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• The younger, more equivocal Hitchens would not have put it that way.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• But Brown has been equivocal about its plans for the next agreement.
  — Sacha Sloan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2023
• To be clear, the messaging was that the MRI is somewhat equivocal.
  — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• But as the emails threaten to spill over into some weird form of sexting, the guests become more equivocal.
  — Sean Malin, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• Yet in the local politics of those thriving places, this growth has been a much more equivocal force.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s appeal to his fans, yet Trump himself seems equivocal about his project.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 June 2022
• But as the election approached, Mr. Trump grew less equivocal.
  — Frances Robles, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2016
• Conley seemed to give very equivocal answers around that, and what happened.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2020
• From his Fifth Symphony onward, Shostakovich practiced an art of equivocal triumph, and the finale of the Tenth might be his deftest feat in this line.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• Collins was equivocal when asked about Kavanaugh in the Capitol on Tuesday morning.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 10 July 2018
• Research is equivocal on whether this practice burns more fat than hitting the pavement after a meal or two.
  — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
• But the plan presented consists of a one-page sheet of paper with broad outlines and equivocal promises.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2017
• These things are - the conclusions of the scientists on those things are actually quite mild and quite soft and equivocal.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2011
• And there are a few bright moments, even behind a steel mask, where Pascal makes his equivocal bounty hunter feel more grounded.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
• But the language was too equivocal to do more than annoy partisans on either side.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 4 May 2017
• Still, Saudi Arabia’s response to Trump’s plan was equivocal, at best.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 Jan. 2020
• And to date, the small amount of data generated by CYNK-001 in several types of cancer have been equivocal.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 31 Mar. 2020
• Legal experts said the equivocal wording meant that the adult cabaret law was not exactly a ban on drag but could still have consequences.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• Siegal is gentle but unsparing in pointing out that the truth is more equivocal.
  — Ruth Franklin, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Others are more equivocal about the binary-like terms on offer.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• The Labour leader has previously been equivocal on whether police should be able to shoot to kill terror suspects.
  — Jane Merrick, CNN, 5 June 2017
• Data on the Mizzou Effect appear to be equivocal, but there’s nothing new about the theory.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• Everything else in parenting was so equivocal, such a gray area.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• After publishing an equivocal review of the show, Mr. Park was invited to join, but did so only after the group agreed to expel Mr. Moon.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Other vocal supporters from 2016 are more equivocal, or have gone quiet, at least about the election.
  — WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
• But a cat is not a squirrel, and its menace looms above the oblivious father and uneasy daughter in images that convey the equivocal nature of the cat’s predator mind.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2022
• Throughout his first term, reporters have repeatedly tried to pin Trump down on these questions, and his answers have always been equivocal at best.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 30 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024