bodiless

Example Sentences

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“It is very difficult to talk in Afrikaans …,” begins the bodiless voice.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2023

He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

There’s plenty of hypothetical innovation, too: ramjet fusion machines, antimatter engines and “laser porting” of human connectomes to enable bodiless exploration of the cosmos.

From Nature • Feb. 6, 2018

Quickly, the case of the bodiless woman, whom they now call Jane Doe, went cold.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2017

The only way to tell if someone is a bodiless witch is by the deep wrinkle lines around her neck.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung