shapeless

Example Sentences

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Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

She, too, had fallen under the spell of believing that they were plain and shapeless.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

They cited her “frumpy cardigan, shapeless above-the-knee shift” and, get this, “‘demure’ makeup.”

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2024

The main process affected was morphogenesis -- an organism developing its shape -- and shapeless embryos cannot survive.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

He had a shapeless cap on his head, a hoe over his shoulder, and he was singing: Who asked you to be buried alive?

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen