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

Even with 15 men on the pitch, their attack, with a healthy supply of ball, was shapeless.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 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

Night was gathering over the shapeless lands before them; the sickly green of them was fading to a sullen brown.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien