Sentence examples for an ambiguous phrase from inspiring English sources

It's an ambiguous phrase.

This is an ambiguous phrase, and there is a possibility that she is referring to the "lady gardener" look.

It was an ambiguous phrase on a night that might have ended a once-prestigious phase in the history of the sport.

China's leader, Hu Jintao, has talked since he assumed power five years ago about "building a harmonious society," an ambiguous phrase subject to countless interpretations.

This article was amended on 5 May 2012 to remove an ambiguous phrase that could be inferred to be inconsistent with Guardian editorial guidelines.

Every investor wants what the NYSE says it provides: "best price".That is an ambiguous phrase, but it means, among other things, that the price should be as tight as possible.

This was, apart from the differences in both healthcare systems, due to a lack of understanding of the CCM and an ambiguous phrasing of the items which were not precise enough in German.

The ANC's councillors, he insisted, in an unintentionally ambiguous phrase, "are the custodians of corruption".

"Internet art" is a perfectly ambiguous phrase and the grant guidelines specify proposing projects can be "web-based art, works that employ mobile platforms, performance, video, installation or sound art".

It has been claimed that when listeners encounter a syntactically ambiguous phrase they temporarily activate both syntactic interpretations and this increases working memory load (MacDonald et al., 1992).

The patients as a group also showed increased activation in the left inferior parietal lobule, angular gyrus and supramarginal gyrus when they encountered a syntactically ambiguous phrase.