wordless
Example Sentences
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Nighthand hung in the water and roared: a wordless bellow of fury that shook the air.
From Literature
The Jewish composer recalled the niguns — wordless, improvised prayers — that he grew up hearing in synagogue, and he drew on that sense memory.
From Los Angeles Times
And although they recall many wordless moments of repose between takes, the shoot enlivened the actors far more than it exhausted them.
From Los Angeles Times
Just thinking about it prompted Penelope to start humming the wordless little sea chantey that Simon had been whistling earlier.
From Literature
Then, when The Blind Man realizes that the rumored “Spirit of the Forest” is, in fact, this wounded, wordless being seeking nothing more than company, his reaction is not terror but tenderness.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
