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Example sentences for "vague idea"

  • She walked up the steps with a vague idea of going in.

  • At first she had a vague idea that it was a beggar, but on coming closer she recognized all.

  • A dim remembrance of his long sickness suggested itself, and he had a vague idea of this figure attending upon him.

  • My father has a vague idea that in some way or other I ought to pick up my living, though he never offers a suggestion as to how I should do it.

  • Of what followed he had but a vague idea.

  • Godfrey was conscious of but little as he went along; he had a vague idea of a warm moist feeling down the back, and wondered whether it was his own blood.

  • If anyone asked me about your accomplishments I should say that you knew a good deal of Latin and Greek, that you had a vague idea of English, and that you could read, but unfortunately you were quite unable to write.

  • Once upon a time he had had a vague idea that it was a glorious sport of the heroic character to be dirty; now he would have liked to have had a wash.

  • He had a vague idea that to reach town one had to get to Kingston, and he knew that through Cobham and Esher was the road to Kingston.

  • I had a vague idea of Piccadilly, that's all.

  • I had a vague idea of going on to my own house, and that was as much motive as I had.

  • He had a vague idea that he might see something of me.

  • It was perhaps a vague idea of making his way to Chelmsford, where some friends of his lived, that at last induced my brother to strike into a quiet lane running eastward.

  • He still wore his woman's dress, having a vague idea that it might prove of service in some new attempt to escape, though quite unable to imagine any way in which such escape could be possible.

  • He had a vague idea of keeping Talbot in the tower, and conveying her food, etc.

  • Knowing the nature of the river there, and wondering what might bring a sleigh out at such a time, I stopped, and watched them with a vague idea of shouting to them to go back.

  • I had nothing to do, and so I went with my new-found friend, with a vague idea of seeing him safe home.

  • A vague idea of seeing her shadow on the window still possessed me, and so I kept along on the opposite sidewalk, and looked up to see if there was any light or any shadow.

  • She understood the smarting pains in which he composed; she had a vague idea of the labyrinthine complications of his inner fate; these she grasped.

  • She had a vague idea as to what people said about him, and she knew that he was looked upon in the city as the adversary of evil himself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vague idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been carried; being told; both great and small; butter sauce; certain localities; deep mourning; divine influence; league boots; look mighty; never used; our hero; profound darkness; rather firm; sing cuccu; social institutions; supply them; vague feeling; vague idea; vague sense; week days; when fully; whole allspice; working drawings; your lordship