Sentences with amphibology
am·phi·bol·o·gy
A a - What you said is right but I smell an amphibology here.
- Self-destructive treason and the haunting discourse of amphibology reduce the play to the strutting and fretting of a poor player upon the stage of political battle, ultimately, in its amphibolic circularity, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
- An amphibology is a statement that is ambiguous or can be taken in two ways.
- Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology, and one difficult to translate literally.