Example sentences for: shapeless

How can you use “shapeless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The eggs will seem shapeless and gummy or oily and filmed with a whitish glaze.

  • Could the gay guy convert--and, if so, would the conversion take ? McCauley's writing is mild and rather shapeless, but he gropes honestly for some new design for living.

  • The Library of America produced a fat 1,500-page volume of Jefferson some years ago, but Jefferson's writings turned out to be a shapeless heap of private letters and peculiar jottings intermixed with an occasional manifesto of immortal grandeur--and to make your way through them unaided was nearly impossible.

  • On the other hand, his recent proposed revival of the "Z" sports car was a shapeless blob.

  • The limitations of languages are again brought home in A thousand curses do not tear a tobe [a shapeless, shirtlike garment]; or, most majestically of all, in The dogs bark, the caravan passes.


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