Examples of shapeless in a Sentence
an old, shapeless baseball cap
right now this clay is just a shapeless lump, but wait until I'm done sculpting it
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Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?
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Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Iris’ tutoring is shapeless and hardly encouraging, rousing skepticism in an older pupil (played by Hong regular Lee Hye-young) wary of her teacher’s unorthodox methods.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Iris’ tutoring is shapeless and hardly encouraging, rousing skepticism in an older pupil (played by Hong regular Lee Hye-young) wary of her teacher’s unorthodox methods.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shapeless. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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shapeless
adjective
shape·less
ˈshā-pləs 
1
: having no fixed or regular shape
2
a
: deprived of usual or normal shape
b
: not shapely
shapelessly
adverb
shapelessness
noun
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