How to Use shapeless in a Sentence

shapeless

adjective

• Most of us were in jeans and bulky, shapeless sweaters against the chill.
  — Eric Felten, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• His face went shapeless and blank as though the bones of his skull had melted.
  — Dale Peck, The New Republic, 12 July 2019
• But the dress that zipper is attached to feels too thin and shapeless.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 July 2023
• Some are tired of sifting through racks of stretchy, shapeless clothes that fall apart far too soon.
  — Catie Nienaber, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2018
• Heather, wearing the Econowife uniform of gray shapeless drab, is pissed at what the cat dragged in.
  — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
• But as the sun rose, a chorus of coughs arose from the shapeless forms wrapped in blankets and bits of plastic sheeting.
  — Mark Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• Something shapeless is rising from the deep and, waiting for it, is Robert Mueller.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Mar. 2018
• That’s not to say fat is the only safe solution for a shapeless bottom.
  — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Jan. 2018
• Air-drying my hair begets frizz, which threatens to turn curly and wavy hair into a shapeless, foamy cloud.
  — Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 11 July 2023
• Turn a shapeless sack dress from boring to bodycon with an off-center front knot.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 14 Oct. 2015
• And the 320-page book has become a semi-shapeless streamer, with most episodes clocking over an hour.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• The silver tiger stuck its head out from the shadows under the bed and opened its huge and shapeless mouth, biting down on my right ankle.
  — Lu Yang, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Below her bench that day last June, in a shapeless brown jail uniform, stood Jorge Martinez.
  — Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
• In my head, most of Toto's music got lost amid a shapeless jumble of yacht rock and early-80s soft-rock classics.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 22 June 2017
• This returned focus to the movie’s villain — the nameless, shapeless evil that dwells beneath the town of Derry, Maine.
  — Anthony Breznican, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2017
• Her daughters swapped their headscarves for shapeless black niqabs.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• The stiff-legged chair and shapeless pillow combine to suggest a slovenly human form.
  — Robert Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• Lubell profiles the architect, a man of few words who likens his museum structure to a shapeless cloud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• His suits, with their soft shoulders and nipped waists, proudly stand apart from the shapeless sack suits favored by most Washington men.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
• In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was shapeless and barren, so God added light and water and land and sky and plants and animals and humans.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• Repping your favorite team doesn't have to mean wearing a big, shapeless T-shirt or oversize jersey.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 22 Sep. 2015
• That dust really caught my eye: some of it is not shapeless and random, but has been sculpted into very long, very thin wisps and tendrils.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2012
• The seats were filled with students, mostly male, in sweats and shorts and shapeless tees; a tall flight of bleachers was pulled out to accommodate later arrivals.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
• Soon, a shapeless object was discernible on the waves, silhouetted against the moonlight rippling on the water.
  — Hereward Holland, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2016
• Soon, a shapeless object was discernible on the waves, silhouetted against the moonlight rippling on the water.
  — Hereward Holland, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2016
• She was dressed as un-Cookie-like as could be, wearing a largely shapeless plaid midcentury dress, with her hair set in pin curls.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 20 May 2016
• Remember when woman with curves were forced to choose between uninspired black one-pieces and shapeless swim dresses?
  — Nicolette Mason, Marie Claire, 24 Apr. 2014
• Though she was known for her style, Jackie kept the ensembles austere: a black shapeless cover with two eyes cut for herself, and a matching one in red for her sister-in-law.
  — Kate Storey, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2016
• When onions are very soft, almost a shapeless mass, season fish and grill it, turning once, for a total of about 6 minutes for tuna, 8-10 minutes for swordfish.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 5 June 2019
• Divinity was omnipresent in the ancient Middle East, even in the shapeless stones called baetyls that were often objects of cult worship.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 18 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024