How to Use nebulous in a Sentence

nebulous

adjective

• These philosophical concepts can be nebulous.
• Luck was just one of many strings tied to the nebulous object that was the future.
  — Belinda Huijuan Tang, Vogue, 5 May 2022
• The play is a two-hander that, while set in the modern day, has a nebulous sense of time and space.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• This is an area hazier than gray and more nebulous than fog.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
• Jacob has grand, nebulous plans for his life, but these are lost in the war.
  — Micah Mattix, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Blame it on the moon’s square off with nebulous Neptune!
  — USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Of course the nebulous catch rule would play a role in deciding the season.
  — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• And with such a huge multi-pronged problem, the end game can be a bit nebulous.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2022
• The king of the casseroles has a nebulous yet traceable origin story.
  — Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2022
• The laws of friendship are so nebulous and stretchy that what even is a breakup, anyway?
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• While the Western response was clear from the start, the objective—the endgame of this war—has been nebulous.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
• Here is a look at some of the issues that make the term terrorism so nebulous and tricky.
  — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Of course, these concepts aren’t new and can seem quite nebulous.
  — Dr. Janet Ahn and Tessa West, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
• Trust is a nebulous thing, and something very easy to lose but very hard to regain.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
• But in the world of cloud computing, the perimeter is more nebulous.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2022
• And this one doesn’t have a product tie-in from a nebulous specter hawking its book.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 15 June 2021
• The plan, which at this point seems to be completely nebulous, is for five starters plus one.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 5 Mar. 2018
• One of these searching souls will be left holding the nebulous prize by book’s end.
  — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• The direction of and vision for the team is amorphous and nebulous.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• The topic’s too vast and nebulous and the cultures too disparate.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
• Nobody knows what will, and will not clear Valves nebulous rules.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
• The genre identity of the Purge movies has always been nebulous.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 July 2021
• But, to most people, a CT scan can feel abstract and nebulous.
  — Vivian Ewing, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• But the nebulous nature of the program’s goals has caused some to question its value.
  — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2020
• Since then, a few things have happened that provide some hints as to what Valve might mean by that nebulous term.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
• For nebulous reasons, my husband wavered and then backed out at the last minute.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• The biggest effects may be more nebulous and longer-term.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
• Its provenance and journey from the desert to Montana six decades ago and now to Jerusalem remain nebulous.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 7 Sep. 2022
• The term is a somewhat nebulous way to describe someone who is mildly out of touch or just a hair behind in the times.
  — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2021
• It’s a concept nebulous enough to be made to seem offensive or evil.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024