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Vague
"Vague" in a Sentence (28 examples)
This meeting is a waste of time. Everybody is just talking in vague theoretical terms.
I have a very vague idea of what you are talking about.
It is often pointed out that a vague smile is typical of the Japanese.
The vague rumor proved to be false.
This paragraph is vague.
I've had a vague uneasiness.
I deal in facts and figures, not vague impressions.
Questioned about his policies, the candidate gave only vague answers.
He put me off with a vague answer.
He gave a vague answer.
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It follows from what has been said that a vague thought has more likelihood of being true than a precise one. To try and hit an object with a vague thought is like trying to hit the bull's eye with a lump of putty: when the putty reaches the target, it flattens out all over it, and probably covers the bull's eye along with the rest. To try and hit an object with a precise thought is like trying to hit the bull's eye with a bullet. The advantage of the precise thought is that it distinguishes between the bull's eye and the rest of the target.
Throughout the first week of his presidency, Dulles and Bissell continued to brief Kennedy on their strategy for Cuba, but the men were vague and their meetings offered little in the way of hard facts.
a vague term of abuse
only a vague notion of what’s needed
a vague hint of a thickening waistline
I haven’t the vaguest idea.
a vague longing
For though my nature rarely yields To that vague fear implied in death; Nor shudders at the gulfs beneath, The howlings from forgotten fields; […]
Waxed-fleshed out-patients / Still vague from accidents, / And characters in long coats / Deep in the litter-baskets […]
He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
The Lord Gray incourag'd his men to set sharply upon the vague villains
She danced along with vague, regardless eyes, / Anxious her lips, her breathing quick and short: [...]
The gray vague of unsympathizing sea / That dragged his fancy from her moorings back / To shores inhospitable of eldest time.
[T]he Scots had some leasure to plaie their vagues
[The soul] doth vague and wander.
Vaguely, yes. I've vagued all my life; that's been my curse.
A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion?
What's with you? You're all vagued out.
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