How to Use formless in a Sentence

formless

adjective

• There’s the formless button-downs and short-shorts and the Sufjan Stevens and the peach.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• The sea was green, the formless dark blobs more visible than in the flat gray light of the previous day.
  — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
• In the formless body of the Mind Flayer, the horrors of the show and the monsters that perpetrate them merge into one.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
• Aaron Maine is obsessed with the image of water: in the air, in bathtubs and in large, formless lakes.
  — E.r. Pulgar, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
• Many are small slides of powdery snow that move as a formless mass downslope.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• In it, the Earth is described as being dark, empty, and formless.
  — Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• Over meals that punctuate formless hours on the boat, Thorsen gets to know who takes coffee with cream and who prefers the dressing on the side.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2016
• To the right and left of me rose up those terrible formless things of my imagination.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2017
• Gillian had adored and envied her, felt herself formless and dull by contrast.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• Inside the container, a pale, formless mass muttered and burped.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• Of course there was skin under the dark, formless garment, but the sight of it is incongruous and mildly shocking.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• Everyone knows women’s golf outfits are meant to be boxy and formless.
  — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 16 July 2017
• The producer's love for ambient stems from a formless jam session a couple years back.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
• Now the fiction was formless and empty, and darkness lay over the surface of the science, and the spirit of mathematics hovered over their creation.
  — Stan Stalnaker, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2019
• His hand sprouts metallic screws, driving into his wrist, locking his gun into a hand that swells into a grotesque of formless and seeping flesh.
  — Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• In quarantine, this has meant that my days are not a formless mass of hours, but instead punctuated by thrice-daily prayer times.
  — CNN, 22 June 2021
• Flashes of white provided historic musing — such as one formless ancient Greek tunic in white silk that gained its structure from the curves of the model’s body.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• For many of those who experienced it, the tragedy of the tsunami was formless, black and ineffable, an immense and overwhelming monster that blocked out the sun.
  — Lisa Levy, New Republic, 9 Oct. 2017
• Destiny 2's pyramid ships, like this one in Savathun's throne world from The Witch Queen expansion, add character to the formless enemy of the series.
  — Saniya Ahmed, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
• The early idea of a formless God, nirguna Brahman, gave way to the recognition that people needed something less abstract to worship.
  — Shashi Tharoor, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• Now, Holden is more clearly an unstable genius, rather than some kind of formless lead character.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Here again, the pace oozes — all the things the lizards are doing as distractions (reading, watching a tiger camgirl, absorbing news, attending a Zoom birthday) all bleed into a formless blob.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• This realization totally reshaped the app, which uses a formless visualization of the wind as a metaphor for grief.
  — Liz Stinson, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2015
• The first two episodes are generally formless, convincing neither as episodic television nor as a 74-minute movie.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
• After all, within astrology, Pisces symbolizes the ocean — the formless, vast abyss filled with mysteries and wonder.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 June 2018
• If the statistics are even close to accurate, for a huge chunk of our nation’s emerging young adults, money is a magical, mysterious thing, inchoate and formless.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• Over the past few weeks, Mars, the planet of action, has been cruising across the area of your chart associated with formless emotions and intangible experiences.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Feb. 2018
• Riker wisely resists easy epiphanies that might give structure to his formless narrative.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• For some, slipping into a soft sweater dress or matching sweatsuit is both comfortable and comforting—giving shape to an otherwise formless day.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 14 May 2020
• For a show that’s so formless, Better Things has a remarkable sense for storytelling, told often through seemingly mundane bits of dialogue.
  — GQ, 9 Dec. 2017

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