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
  • The sea was green, the formless dark blobs more visible than in the flat gray light of the previous day.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 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
  • These were more indiscrete: vast and seemingly formless, like massive cow pies turned to stone and then broken by a nasty fall.
    — Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Novelty stores sold Belichick costumes for Halloween, complete with formless sweatpants and a drab ski cap.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • 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

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