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

For physicians, such cases pose ethically complex questions: Would a baby with a severe diagnosis, such as an unformed brain, truly be viable?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022

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

And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver