unformed

Example Sentences

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In short, it was perfect for an adolescent boy of burgeoning but unformed pretensions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

In initial scripts, Matafeo intentionally left the character of Tom somewhat unformed, knowing only that she wanted someone who had palpable chemistry with her and who didn’t mind playing the straight man.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2022

Their lives are intense, chaotic, thrilling: open and largely as yet unformed.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2021

Down into pink-tiled bathrooms and among translucent, unformed babies with unseeing black spots for eyes, and dark braids that moved of their own accord, working their way along the sandy bottom of sleep like inchworms.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez