How to Use amorphous in a Sentence

amorphous

adjective

• Researchers tried quite a few different ways to stick a tag on amorphous, fragile jelly.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• At this point, the big picture is amorphous, but the pool of potentially available talent has largely settled.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• These are wobbly and amorphous but expanding categories.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 28 Jan. 2018
• Cohen emerged from the world of broadcast journalism, a field that's increasingly amorphous.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Unlike the mucus in our noses, which appears amorphous and blobby, the mucous sheets of these ocean grazers can be structured into ornate meshes and nets.
  — Kelly Sutherland, Smithsonian, 3 May 2018
• Something radiant and amorphous opened up in the center of my chest, and an invisible root system seemed to unfurl there and extend to my feet and into the ground.
  — S. Kirk Walsh, Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
• That helps explain why glass is neither a crystalline solid nor a liquid, but rather an atomically disordered (or amorphous) solid.
  — Doug Main, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2018
• In another, Amy Resnick blows a hole within an amorphous bubble — a real effect created with the help of a massive bubble wand.
  — Brandon Yu, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• Then there is the fact that discontent toward Trump -- among Republicans -- remains somewhat amorphous at the moment.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Mar. 2018
• That the Sibelius and Britten performances tended to be atmospheric and amorphous may have been of necessity.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• At the same time, the migration issue exposes the potential fault lines in Macron’s somewhat amorphous centrist faction, which spans both sides of the political aisle.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• Trumpism is far less ideological and more amorphous, a personality cult more than a coherent philosophy.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
• The more amorphous stuff is the cat-and-mouse of getting to know somebody.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• For the most part, the threat of Big Data was amorphous and faceless.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 May 2020
• In spite of the high stakes, the race for mayor is still a messy and amorphous affair.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• And in the amorphous plenitude beyond the deal lies the free.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• The top of his head looked amorphous, like mist fading into the dark.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
• Their grief, for better and for worse, will be more amorphous.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
• But so many of the apologies are for other, more amorphous things.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
• The front of an amorphous alabaster coat flapped unzipped at the top and bottom.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
• But one area where the Trump camp can move the fulcrum is in the amorphous category of fear.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2020
• The amorphous blob of 6-6 teams clogging up the middle of the standings in your league will learn their playoff fates.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• What can the amorphous New Blue Sun do to a listener’s feelings?
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 7 Dec. 2023
• Time can't—and shouldn’t—be the only way to measure a process as amorphous as healing a broken heart.
  — Myisha Battle, TIME, 30 May 2024
• In response, the FLN and its supporters aren’t an amorphous mass.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• This is the most amorphous topic of the evening, and, as a result, the most difficult to analyze ahead of time.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
• But the amorphous nature of the threat demands a cool assessment.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• The direction of and vision for the team is amorphous and nebulous.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• Yet in the meantime, anything in this wheelhouse is often dismissed on the right as part of a sinister Green New Deal, an amorphous notion that does not exist in legislative reality.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 June 2024
• The natural antidote to this condition is not a retrenchment to amorphous, universal descriptors devoid of context or nuance.
  — Stacey Y. Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024