How to Use unformed in a Sentence

unformed

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• Spencer’s deftness with such unformed ideas is still a marvel to watch.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 31 May 2019
• Our goal is to ally with scores of as-yet-unformed alumni groups around the country.
  — Stuart Taylor Jr. and Edward Yingling, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• All sleeping children are as alike as siblings, unformed, soft in the cheek.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
• But what about the fence-sitters, vaccine-wary parents with unformed views?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2015
• Angela’s unformed sense of self is mirrored in the novel by Ruth’s childlike state.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
• Joe, while seeking a way back to his own body, ends up mentoring a bratty unformed soul, 22 (voiced by Tina Fey).
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
• Newsom’s plan is largely unformed and being introduced far in advance of the mid-June deadline for the state to pass its budget.
  — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• That’s partly by design: If the aim is to capture the spirit rather than the letter of Franklin’s immense presence, that spirit in ‘Respect’ is still unformed.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• If a little unformed and less than completely honest with himself, Jabari is a decent guy.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Maybe that’s why his identity as a filmmaker seems so vaguely unformed here.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• My life always weighed in the balance against potential life, and the unformed life always seemed to win against my actual existence.
  — Time, 24 June 2021
• Sandler plays a floundering basketball scout who risks his career on a talented but unformed new prospect, and his real-life love of the game shines through.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
• The ways of performative politics and media prey on unformed minds.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• There’s something beautiful but still-unformed about people in their early 20s, and the performers look too mature to convey it.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
• A young person in his 20s, unformed, skittish, goes out into the world and tries to fall in love, a project complicated by the bulky defenses that allow him to undertake so risky a venture in the first place.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Trump doesn’t use his Twitter account just to announce unformed policy.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• So very unformed, this protein nugget is going to take you on an embryonic journey that’ll last forever.
  — Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
• The fact that a couple thousand unformed personnel in Syria will be withdrawing is a tactical change.
  — John Hudson, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2019
• Still, as the earliest rumblings of the 2024 GOP nomination race play out here, his name was rarely mentioned by Republicans when asked who is intriguing to them in the still unformed field.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 5 July 2021
• The combination of the color of the coat, the isolation of the girl and the crepuscular woods brings to mind Little Red Riding Hood, an association that settles in your mind like an unformed thought.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• As applied to a circle of unformed young people curious about the grown-up in their midst, the game Ray plays is one of domination, brainwashing them into needing his approval.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
• The indigenous people believe the world was unformed and featureless before ancestral beings emerged and shaped species and landscapes.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
• But with the health-care bill still working its way through the Senate and Trump’s tax overhaul proposals still largely unformed, the White House has been left to tout more incremental agenda items, most of which have struggled to gain traction.
  — Abby Phillip, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• Possibly even better: If your Thanksgiving plans are as unformed as mine are, this can be the centerpiece of any fall dinner, on a holiday or not, weeknight or weekend, for a crowd or just for you.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• Polls show the Florida governor either first or second in a still unformed primary field, along with the former president.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
• The ups and downs of life at a particular age, with peer pressures, communication with parents, relationships formed and unformed and other things, always go on.
  — Sylvia Gurinsky, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• Though some high-profile critics have been rumored as potential opponents, the field of challengers remains largely unformed and there is no reliable public polling on the mayor’s job approval.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
• Barthelme’s was a restless, hungry and, to a large extent, unformed intelligence, and almost every one of his stories encapsulates his odd narrative charm in all its loose and shaggy glory.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2021
• Adams’s economic program is, to put it charitably, unformed.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2021
• For physicians, such cases pose ethically complex questions: Would a baby with a severe diagnosis, such as an unformed brain, truly be viable?
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022

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