How to Use amorphous in a Sentence

amorphous

adjective

• There is no money on the line but a more amorphous bet—the fate of a race.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
• The meaning of the ick is different to everyone, and its amorphous nature makes for a softer work from Kahn, who has a penchant for taking on sacred cows.
  — Stephen Saito, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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 constant hacks have left us all with an amorphous sense of dread.
  — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 20 May 2017
• 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
• Why put the amorphous hopes of the audience ahead of his own, more urgent needs?
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 27 July 2017
• 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
• Who in the numberless, amorphous readership of the world cares about you and your son?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• One of the more interesting types of ice is amorphous ice.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2017
• 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
• And yet Likud still speaks as the underdog, as the opposition to a deep state and an amorphous elite.
  — Natan Sachs, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017
• The direction of and vision for the team is amorphous and nebulous.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• Yet for many, what this means in practice remains amorphous.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• Does your spouse always empty out their pockets at the end of the day into an amorphous mass on the dresser?
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2022
• The noise of fans filling the space slingshots around the room, amorphous, all-encompassing.
  — Rafi Kohan, GQ, 9 Aug. 2017
• Perhaps in an attempt to mirror its subject’s frame of mind, the film feels amorphous.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 13 Nov. 2021
• The crowds the city has seen are often made up of amorphous groups of people who come for different reasons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• Trying to up the ante to something as amorphous and variable as loyalty is a bridge too far.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• Unlike the rigid human heart, the heart of the blue whale is an amorphous bag of muscle, able to shrink and still pump blood under the immense pressures of the ocean depths.
  — John J. Ross, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024