bodiless

Example Sentences

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There’s plenty of hypothetical innovation, too: ramjet fusion machines, antimatter engines and “laser porting” of human connectomes to enable bodiless exploration of the cosmos.

From Nature • Feb. 6, 2018

Quickly, the case of the bodiless woman, whom they now call Jane Doe, went cold.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2017

Its own six creamy-gray bands, divided by narrower lines of darker gray, held my gaze, buoyant and bodiless, in place.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2017

Merrill and Jackson, called “JM” and “DJ” throughout, act as “scribe” and “hand,” respectively: Merrill reshaped into poetry the raw material that Jackson, acting as the “hand” of the bodiless spirits, copied down.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015

At home, he was alarmed, picking it up, at how light it seemed — bodiless.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen