How to use "nebulous" in a sentence (2024)

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By night, strange, murky, shady, characters emerge from the indistinct, nebulous corners.
The concept of an elementary particle becomes a little nebulous in such circ*mstances.
His sculptures and etchings on this theme straddle a nebulous elegance, somewhere between abstraction and technical drawing.
Why do you think scientists have been reluctant to grapple with this nebulous notion of the human mind?
Betke was better off when he was digesting found sounds into something murky and nebulous.
I've always wondered why we use a plural pronoun to refer to a third, rather nebulous, individual.
So, if we accept that religion doesn't govern civil marriage and that civil marriage changes over time, we are left with a more nebulous worry.
This is the first in a series that explores the nebulous connection between modern art and cartooning.
Most irritating of all, I'm finding that my brain is absolutely unable to cope with vague, nebulous concepts or ideas.
Yet there are dinosaurs who take a dim view of such a plan, their highly specious argument revolving around the nebulous concept of loyalty.
Of course, this risks the subordination of personal freedom to some nebulous concept of public good.
Shapley noted that nebulous objects tended to be everywhere except in the Milky Way plane.
We read Foucault, who proposed that we were all subject to an authority so nebulous as to be undefeatable.
For 130 miles we plowed through this nebulous and speculative world, peopling it, unpeopling it, fiddling like gods with its probable geology.
Style and image is everything when you're trying to sell something as nebulous as an idea.
Discretion is a nebulous thing, each case is different and what we are saying is that the HSE doesn't appear to look at cases individually.
He nimbly steers his magic carpet through the nebulous and confusing post-modern clouds of the internet.
The second point, my Lord, is that merely being offered some nebulous assurance at this stage provides absolutely no comfort whatsoever.
I assume that nebulous economic term indicates it's some form of slush fund for the pollies to spend at their discretion.
The Pleiades is a nebulous cluster of stars, all contained within one degree of longitude, located on the shoulder of the Bull.
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As often as not he began writing with only a nebulous idea of what he proposed to do.
What misshapen gargantuan of nebulous formed flesh, hurls out its flood of darkness, the systems to enmesh.
This is in a gray area between black and white, and it is somewhat nebulous to pin it down to a precise percentage dimension.
Floating in nebulous masses about the blackberry thicket, the delicately conspicuous hue of the fireweed catches the eye.
Tillotson was so latitudinarian that his churchmanship was nebulous.
These nebulous rings, too, became condensed into rotating balls.
Behind these, Castor and Pollux, and next the cloudlike, nebulous Cancer.
The ground of this picture is crossed with nebulous black streaks.
It had been, when it had existed, so nebulous that words were not needed to eliminate it.
They were like the tiniest grains of dust,and they whirled round and gathered in clusters in a nebulous sort of way.
How untrue, after all, was the nebulous philosophy of Omar, the tentmaker.
It describes the nebulous attitude of mind of many a one to-day.
The moment he saw the letter the nebulous idea became opaque.
Her thought of him was vague, nebulous, and taking many forms.
Entropion, with nebulous and vascular cornea in an old woman of seventy.
Centrifugal force hurled the particles of the nebulous center toward the crust as rapidly as they approached a solid state.
But this possession of her was dim and nebulous and totally different from possession as he had known it.
With help on the inside, this was not difficult, for in that shadow-world of secret service identity was nebulous.
But in the nebulous world of artistic expression, the difference between rapping about rape and condoning rape is an important, if murky, distinction.
What kind of entertaining they represent, and how far they may be compared to the professional storytellers in China a millennium later, is a nebulous question.
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How to use "nebulous" in a sentence (2024)

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