bodiless

Example Sentences

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“It is very difficult to talk in Afrikaans …,” begins the bodiless voice.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2023

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

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

Many claim she’s only a myth—the bodiless witch, an ordinary person by daytime and a witch at night.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung