wordlessness

Example Sentences

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When Shane sang, that silence, the awful wordlessness was defeated.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

There’s something to the wordlessness of their pain, and the mystery of its depth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

“One reason for the terrible wordlessness of the experience is that you cannot observe fire really closely without becoming part of it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

But from you, a period of wordlessness – if not headlessness – would now be most welcome.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2017

I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythms of transience as if into bed.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood