How to Use emotionless in a Sentence

emotionless

adjective
  • She did her job with emotionless efficiency.
  • Mr. Ryan’s face was fixed in an emotionless half smile.
    David M. Herszenhorn and Emmarie Huetteman, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
  • Spock’s father Sarek says, at the end of the movie,an emotionless man finding words of kindness.
    Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Just know this when watching: The emotionless numbers are on the Jayhawks’ side.
    Jesse Newell, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Her face remained emotionless as the judge read her charges of three counts of first-degree homicide.
    Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2020
  • As Conaway spoke, Schiff sat largely emotionless in his chair, with his arms crossed and staring straight ahead.
    Fox News, 20 Nov. 2019
  • They're often depicted as so tough and emotionless, almost like a man, to play that kind of role.
    Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2018
  • But a failure to really give Tomas and the rest of the inmates at the prison a decent backstory made the episode pretty emotionless.
    cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Green said, just one in a series of succinct, emotionless answers.
    Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2018
  • The game is in Seattle on Oct. 19, and like previous editions figures to be a dull, emotionless affair.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • After the jurors were discharged, Holmes, wearing a mask and seemingly emotionless, went down the line of her supporters in the San Jose courtroom.
    Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 4 Jan. 2022
  • One of the last scenes of the film shows former lovers, now zombies, pacing back and forth past each other, obliviously emotionless as their dead hands brush against each other.
    Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Some say the financial industry is emotionless by default, but that's not true.
    Alex Kreger, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But the avenging Dolores who dominates Season 2 is stuck in one emotionless mode.
    Sandra Upson, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • While the game is combative by nature, strong players are deliberate and emotionless at every step of the way.
    Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2019
  • The child’s mother had posted on Facebook a description of her normally emotionless son, who on the drive home from the riding center was smiling from ear to ear.
    J. Harry Jones, Pomerado News, 5 July 2017
  • While continuing to share stories, Jonathan mentions that there was a time when Drew was somewhat of an emotionless robot.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Teddy Bridgewater had been through too much to get back here, to the doorstep of his first meaningful start in nearly four years, to stand emotionless on Sunday afternoon.
    Albert Breer, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The attorneys’ emotionless banter about the father, mother and children seems at odds withwhat's at stake: A child’s safety and parents’ rights.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 31 July 2019
  • The bounty hunter was grievously injured during a high-stakes race against Han Solo, and rebuilt by the Empire as an emotionless cyborg hell-bent on vengeance.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The videos also show Todd Kohlhepp, in cold and emotionless detail, confessing to killing seven people in South Carolina.
    Jeffrey Collins, The Seattle Times, 10 June 2017
  • First lady Melania Trump was omnipresent, though largely silent and emotionless.
    Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • His bearded face remained emotionless as reporters hurled questions at him.
    Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
  • Jurors were emotionless as the verdicts were read Tuesday afternoon.
    Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • In the classic sci-fi film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, aliens come down to Earth and essentially start producing emotionless human duplicates.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Often, people with autism on screen have been represented as somewhat emotionless or singularly focused on one thing, and that isn't true.
    Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Several eyewitnesses commented on the emotionless stares and zombie-like movements of the killers.
    The Economist, 18 July 2017
  • The Jedi knights, turns out, are an emotionless priestly overclass raised in a society of parentless tutorials.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • While some fans may prefer baseball players to remain emotionless followers of baseball’s unwritten rules — even in the face of a heckling fan — Diamondbacks pitcher Archie Bradley is too fun for that.
    Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Sebelius, in 2008, was chided for what seemed an entirely emotionless response.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2020

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