How to Use wordless in a Sentence

wordless

adjective

• Spears said in the posts, along with a brief, wordless video of herself.
  — Chron, 5 Oct. 2021
• Marcus lifts the fence and saves the man, who stands up, wraps in him a wordless hug and bikes away.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The nearly wordless crowd gave the forest the air of a church instead of a zoo.
  — Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• That is why the core of the tale resides in an almost wordless scene.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• Save the ever-present rumble of the train, Fuller’s lede plays out as a wordless dance of the Big City.
  — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• The wind sings a wordless song across the Colorado plains, making acres sway.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
• The Green Knight is most brilliant in its wordless sequences.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
• But the wordless love of an equal human being — think on it for a moment.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
• Like the series it's based on, Shaun the Sheep is mostly wordless, and the humans sound like gibberish to the sheep.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• Instead, dinners were always wordless and so were most of the car rides.
  — Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
• Most of the movie is wordless, and the humans speak in gibberish, so this is a good pick for toddlers and preschoolers.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• The wordless fourth panel shows Charlie Brown still on the mound, being pelted by hats and gloves.
  — Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
• Exploring the artist’s life and her wordless language of colour, new ways of seeing are found.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 July 2024
• Some moving, wordless vocal pushes the vibe, and then the first climax hits.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
• But, Arrow's Nathan Mitchell plays him with a wordless stoicism that is cool and bone-chilling.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 3 June 2022
• But even so, the younger man's resemblance to her husband (played by Claflin in a brief, wordless scene) unnerves Rachel.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• That wordless distress echoes through the galleries and hallways.
  — oregonlive.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• The scene is a more satisfying end than the few, wordless panels Elle and Tao get in the original comics.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• This river is wordless, old groans coming from its depths.
  — Jesmyn Ward, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps that’s the point, for things get more interesting in the wordless scrum that follows.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• As forms of wordless storytelling, mime and music are sister arts that rarely share a stage.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• The classic Tom and Jerry cartoons were engines of wordless slapstick joy: fast, clever, and fun.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2021
• There’s something about wordless movement that feels like a balm at a time in which we have been trapped at home, tethered to our endless doom scrolls.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
• But the wordless moments of humor and heart in the quieter scenes show Flanagan’s deft way with storytelling.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 8 Nov. 2019
• My own feelings about the surgery were too convoluted—a lust for something wordless and new.
  — Cyrus Grace Dunham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• These wordless glimpses telegraph too little about her life.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2019
• One of the most moving scenes is largely wordless: During a long drive, Cal tells his sister about the car crash that killed his mother two years ago.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• When the probe scanner robot EVE lands on Earth in search of plant life, we’re given a much fuller sense of the wordless emotional range of these robots.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
• The largely wordless storytelling, of course, puts a limit on mature themes.
  — Adam Bumas, WIRED, 10 June 2024
• Her speech often trailed into wordless sputters, her mouth silently gaping like an unlucky fairground goldfish.
  — Christina Newland, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024