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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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 Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.—Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024 With villains ranging from all-powerful shapeless beings to merry pranksters of the mind, this is a show that dips its toe in the superhero pool right before delivering the world’s most graceful and enigmatic cannonball.—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 July 2024 On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs.—Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for shapeless
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