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
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
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