How to Use vaguely in a Sentence

vaguely

adverb
  • The sheet is now folded in half with a vaguely taco shape.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Duffers vaguely teased plans for more spinoffs.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Like, vaguely mad at the mayor; don’t know who anybody is.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The model, a sullen blonde with messy pageboy hair, looked vaguely sick in it.
    — Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
  • The phrase — clean some things up — is usually used rather vaguely.
    — Sam McDowell December 3, Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Black satin, with a vaguely art deco pat- tern shot through it, a grid of circles and squares.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Fates tell Dream, albeit a bit vaguely, where to find them.
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • On a vaguely lighter note, what’s a recent moment that gave you catharsis?
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Its design is open and vaguely geometric, with a flip on top of the fringe and both short ends.
    — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Black satin, with a vaguely art deco pattern shot through it, a grid of circles and squares.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The green piping is subtle, vaguely retro-tinged, and oh-so-cool for summer.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2024
  • Lopez responded a little vaguely—at least at first.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 2 June 2026
  • The generous side dish tasted vaguely of black pepper and was wet rather than creamy.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • If the photos look vaguely familiar to you, there's a good reason for that.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 14 Aug. 2023
  • From her room, Tina vaguely hears the shot Martin takes at the mirror.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 July 2025
  • The class seems vaguely aware of the missile silos scattered across the county.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
  • Are the characters too vaguely drawn and their arcs too abrupt for any of them to come off like real people?
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Even its embossed gold letters were written in a vaguely medieval script.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • It was made to look instead like a vaguely edgier remix of the 2004 film.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The cut of a sleeve or the drape of a skirt can transform the rosette's effect from quirky and girly to moody and vaguely gothic.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Today, none of this sounds vaguely familiar, right?
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2026
  • All the men are kicked to the curb except for a vaguely humanoid robot donning a baseball cat.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The music playing over the scene is vaguely ’90s divorced-dad rock.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • But thank you for being the only teams that were even vaguely trying to give us a late-season playoff race.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Every officer’s mouth is zipped shut, and all of the faces look vaguely milky and homogenous.
    — Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a late sweetness that lingers and a vaguely sulfuric smell, like bathing in an actual hot spring.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • There was warmth among the orphaned, and a collective hope that felt vaguely messianic.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • During their visits, the team noticed some vaguely familiar lizards on the rocks and caught a few, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Despite the changes, the top Democrat in the House said the bill was worded too vaguely.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Even countries that signaled a willingness to help did so only vaguely.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026

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