How to Use formless in a Sentence
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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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