formless

Example Sentences

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In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Current protesters should emulate that dignity and power, not fall into formless jeering and harassment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Sometimes, it’s easier just to keep anguish as a nameless, formless thing, as Victor does in the first half of the film’s tagline: “Something bad happened to Agnes.”

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2025

The defining complaint about the sacked Dutchman was that after two-and-a-bit seasons the football was still formless and the tactical direction indecipherable.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

He was like a formless white death, suddenly appeared before me, a death which had been there all the time and which had now revealed itself in the madness of the Golden Day.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison