Sentence examples for a sort of vague from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a sort of vague" is not correct in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is not clearly defined or is ambiguous, but it should be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "The explanation was a sort of vague, leaving us more confused than before."
Alternatives: "somewhat unclear" or "rather ambiguous."

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"We all had a sort of vague outline," Ms. Davidtz said.

Only this reordered melodic line remains and the result sounds like a sort of vague, half-remembered Satie, bracing in its austerity.

As played by Mr. Atkinson in Richard Eyre's broadly drawn revival of Gray's 1981 comedy of melancholy, he hardly seems to know what he feels, except a sort of vague ache of solitude and a vaguer awareness of his own incompetence.

So what we are hoping for this time around is not to indulge in some prescriptive posturing, a sort of vague bibliotherapy that doesn't account for your individual concerns – rather, these are books that gave us hope at different times, titles that variously taught us something new about the world, or ourselves.

The NFL turned the protest into a sort of vague protest against Trump's statement against the NFL.

Following that, there was a sort of vague, tacit acknowledgement of their presence by the main landlord of the property.

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There's face-pulling, there's a sort of vaguely street peace sign, there's a complete and total lack of recently deceased figureheads for racial equality.

This is all sort of vague.

The designs are full of jewel-like colours, inspired by the Russian ballet that Bick saw a few years ago, and have a sort of carefree, vaguely 50s summer-in-Capri feel.

But in the Philippines Monday, he added what sounded like a note of deep resentment -- pointedly accusing critics of his approach of a sort of duplicity: vaguely seeking deeper American involvement while at the same time denouncing any specific steps that might lead to an ugly entanglement.

In this extraordinary scene, he comes off as a burned-out, inhuman hulk whose sense of inescapable dependence — of being clay in Simone's hands and a plaything of his life's outer influences — results mainly from his actual existence being a sort of waking dream, a vague and vaporous cloud that serves solely to conceal the core of pathology, from himself and from others.

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