Examples of amorphous in a Sentence

Astronomers think our solar system took shape when an amorphous interstellar cloud of dust and gas collapsed under its own weight. The conservation of angular momentum, or spin, kept some of the material from simply falling all the way to the newborn sun; instead it settled into a pancake shape. — Michael W. Werner et al., Scientific American, June 2009 Most library and academic accrediting associations either ignore weeding or have general, rather amorphous, standards. Among the more specific standards are those of the American Library Associations' 1967 public library systems standards, which suggest annual weeding of at least 5 percent of "community collections," with headquarters libraries weeding more cautiously … — LJ Special Report, 1990 A quarter of a century ago, author Betty Friedan stumbled upon a "problem that has no name."" Middle-class American women were prisoners of gilded cages, she argued, unfulfilled by their exclusive roles as wives and mother. Friedan gave the amorphous problem, and the book that described it, a name—"The Feminine Mystique"—and with it helped launch one of the most transforming social movements in modern history." — Eloise Salholz et al., Newsweek, 31 Mar. 1986 Oblivious to all the attention, the big cat calmly sashayed to a concave little hollow scooped out of an artificial granite cliff-side at the rear of her cage. There, her four sleeping, newborn cubs were nestled one atop another so tightly that they formed one amorphous lump of fur. — Jon Luoma, Audubon, November 1982 an amorphous segment of society amorphous lumps of clay magically transformed by a skilled potter's hands into works of art See More

Recent Examples on the Web While the specifics are still amorphous, the application devotes significant space to describing why Microsoft sees this as a problem to be solved in the first place. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 May 2022 Team culture is an amorphous concept, but an undeniably important one. — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 May 2022 Management is so amorphous that the workers’ perspectives feel arbitrary and ungrounded. — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022 But the most entrancing part of the picture — among the public’s first dispatches from the revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope — lies in the background, where amorphous blobs are really swirling galaxies. — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2022 In a twist of irony, the theme of the upcoming Fantastic Beasts film is, in many ways, intended as a corrective to previous criticisms of the amorphous political and moral orthodoxy of the Harry Potter universe. — Shamira Ibrahim, Essence, 6 Apr. 2022 Coleman had also reportedly fingered one of his close friends as being in on some amorphous conspiracy against him based on a Facebook photo of him as a teenager making hand gestures. — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022 Sickness, meanwhile, has a bulbous, amorphous shape, more blob than arc. — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022 For example, while radar can detect multiple people in a room, if the subjects are too close together, the sensor just sees the gaggle of people as an amorphous blob, which confuses decision-making. — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022 See More

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