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Discover LudwigThe phrase "vague shapes" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe indistinct or unclear forms or outlines in various contexts, such as art, design, or descriptions of objects. Example: "In the dim light of the room, I could only make out vague shapes moving in the shadows."
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Heavily armed French soldiers loomed as vague shapes.
It made of the men vague shapes receding deeper into a country where they knew the marines could not follow.
Was he able to make out vague shapes, or at least perceive, on some level, the difference between night and day?
From time to time he looked through the open window at the inky Bengal night, at the vague shapes of palm trees and the simplest of homes.
They were vague shapes with pasty faces, planted among the lobby posters in their weary clothing, restless bearing, their postoperative posture".
But despite his inability to make out more than vague shapes and colours, he refused to abandon his love of photography - and instead has learnt to adapt his technique.
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I could make out a vague shape underneath the plastic covering held in place with belts.
"Baptismal Dance" (1994) consists of bone, fruit peels, and wood arranged in the vague shape of a crucifix.
Sometimes, history presents itself as the vague shape left over by a force that no longer exists.
We're veiled behind a curtain, so I can only make out the vague shape and the colour of what's being shown.
On the lowest level, viewable from a narrow corridor meant for gun-toting overseers, is Refraction, a swooping five-ton sculpture in the vague shape of a bird's wing.
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