How to Use spineless in a Sentence

spineless

adjective

• In the end, Tucker put to bed the idea that Book was spineless.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2021
• The spineless, silent Bob Kraft and the Patriots get no points for this move.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• Now, the cuttlefish brings the number of spineless creatures known to possess the trait up to two.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• An example of the first school: the pitiful and spineless Joe McGinniss.
  — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• Some wouldn't be quite so spineless as to hide their identity.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 13 Oct. 2017
• Some wouldn’t be quite so spineless as to hide their identity.
  — James Warren, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• What Kourik noticed is that the plants have started to grow thorns; the spineless are becoming spined.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2018
• One agave in the side plot, a large spineless jade agave, has grown a flower stock that since December has soared to about 12 feet tall.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• Some of the succulent ones have spiny stems and look quite like a cactus, while others are spineless.
  — Brian Kemble, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
• There’s nothing mindless or spineless about the synth-pop of Chvrches.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2019
• They’ve been viewed as spineless, cold and only there for the benefit of the employer.
  — Heidi Lynne Kurter, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Alabama voters have a soft spot for the likes of you goober, corrupt spineless types.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 11 Jan. 2021
• The latest episode of Bad Football Movies goes in-depth on the 1996 film, which focuses on life, love and a spineless football agent.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 26 July 2019
• Don't look now, but this spineless sea creature may be able to count better than your toddler.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2016
• Or whether Mr Trump will be quite happy to blow the deal up, blaming the spineless Europeans for siding with Iran.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• In a world of spineless invertebrates, Roger Goodell and Rob Manfred had the best weeks.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
• Nothing like screwing over one of your children to team up with her spineless partner.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• Pullman describes them in The Amber Spyglass as spineless creatures with trunks, and spurs for feet.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• Online tools can give structure to a seemingly spineless day, but a good old notebook and pen works just as well.
  — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2020
• The spineless echinoderms, which are related to starfish and sea urchins, simply grow their viscera back in a few short weeks.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• Being a spineless bottom-dweller might sound like an insult, but the hagfish has enough unique talents to put humans to shame.
  — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2017
• The governor of Tennessee could not come off as more of a gutless, spineless, hapless, dim-witted hick, by the way.
  — Ethan Renner, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
• And he's surrounded himself with other racists who want the same thing, or spineless flunkies who will enable and cover for him.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 16 May 2018
• We are led by a spineless group of men and women, tethered to money and re-election, their collective conscience gone with the wind.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
• On the other hand, the alternative is that the Faceless Men are not only faceless, but a little spineless, too.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, WIRED, 17 June 2016
• Josh O’Connor‘s portrayal of a tortured, spineless Prince Charles.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2021
• Peyote, a small spineless cactus, has been getting people high for thousands of years.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
• Surrounded by spineless prickly pear, the shelter at the top of the hill eventually will be covered with ivy.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
• Madeleine is firmly in the former camp, though her covert romance with spineless tire-factory heir André (a winsome Edouard Sulpice) is of less importance to her than her budding acting career.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Dec. 2023
• Scorsese reshaped the film’s narrative around DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart, who makes for an unconventional lead — a spineless factotum, alternately loving and loathsome.
  — Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024