formless
Example Sentences
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“You have a formless hunch, and you move toward it. It’s a mystery, really, why we’re attracted to certain subjects.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Current protesters should emulate that dignity and power, not fall into formless jeering and harassment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man whose framework seems cartilaginous, without bones.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
The defining complaint about the sacked Dutchman was that after two-and-a-bit seasons the football was still formless and the tactical direction indecipherable.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
He was like a formless white death, suddenly appeared before me, a death which had been there all the time and which had now revealed itself in the madness of the Golden Day.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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