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Recent Examples of formless There’s also brands like Online Ceramics, whose shirts hang thick and wide, and Ghetto Rodeo, their specialty being formless, culture-affirming clothes tailored for Latin bodies like mine. Reanna Cruz, Them, 30 July 2024 Frozen filthy formless lumps, the remainders of the snow, persisted at the street corners and in the deep recesses between buildings, loomed sinisterly in the gaping bomb sites. Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024 Surely the habit, in its formless bulk, could accommodate one. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024 Novelty stores sold Belichick costumes for Halloween, complete with formless sweatpants and a drab ski cap. Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for formless 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for formless
Adjective
  • In contrast to these amorphous resolutions, John’s death provided a substantial, if tragic, endpoint.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Comedy is the word to describe that amorphous, precious, sacred moment of connection between two parties in which a ridiculous but startling truth about the human experience is fully understood.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • As the two compete to disprove the existence of the other’s passion, they get caught up in an encounter of both the spiritual and paranormal, imbuing both teenagers with powers beyond belief.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Or at the very least, take some cues from Kwanzaa, invented in 1966, which established a tradition of giving modest, meaningful gifts to children, separate from (i.e. after) Christmas, with no Santa myth, and with some cultural or spiritual significance.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Iris’ tutoring is shapeless and hardly encouraging, rousing skepticism in an older pupil (played by Hong regular Lee Hye-young) wary of her teacher’s unorthodox methods.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Adjective
  • Well, outside of the chaotic final seconds where, with Washington clinging to a 7-point lead, a game official’s error stopped the clock, leaving the Saints with time to spike the ball, call a play and complete a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Foster Moreau as time expired.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • More recently, at a time that feels similarly tumultuous and chaotic, Colonial Williamsburg and the Jane Austen House Museum have drawn a new wave of interest by teaming up with esteemed design brands to bring archival textiles, wallpapers, and paint colors to new life.
    Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Although the machines’ inventor is concerned with metaphysical questions—do intelligent robots disprove God’s existence?—his engineer son sees the potential for major profit and manufactures robots for sale around the world, with disastrous results.
    Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Her interest in mysteries and the occult began in the metaphysical section at her local Borders.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • What’s unformed and ungainly here makes that patience finite.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • One is weather, with an as-yet unformed hurricane, which will be named Helene, likely to graze Florida's space coast later this week.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Studies show that structured interviews are 50% more effective in predicting job performance than unstructured ones.
    Gary A. Officer, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024

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“Formless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formless. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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