Definition of WORDLESSLY

Examples of wordless in a Sentence

he stood wordless before his accusers a wordless fondness for each other

Recent Examples on the Web Philip says, in response to his wife's wordless accusation of an affair. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, "A Quick Recap of The Crown Season 2 Before the Show Returns to Netflix," 14 Nov. 2019 The wordless fourth panel shows Charlie Brown still on the mound, being pelted by hats and gloves. — Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, "The Peanuts Characters Aren’t Ordinary Kids," 29 Aug. 2019 This wordless tune will interrupt a game of charades, one in which Elsa awkwardly stumbles. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, "‘Frozen 2' new footage revealed. It’s dazzling," 24 Aug. 2019 In the Sunday strip from November 26, 1961, Snoopy spends a dozen wordless panels bounding through curtains of rain that slash vertically and violently through each scene. — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, "How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking," 6 Aug. 2019 The videos, which draw millions of views on TikTok and YouTube, are made in the Chinese countryside and usually completely wordless. — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, "The best thing on the Internet is Chinese cooking videos," 9 Sep. 2019 My own feelings about the surgery were too convoluted—a lust for something wordless and new. — Cyrus Grace Dunham, The New Yorker, "A Year Without a Name," 12 Aug. 2019 Lee is so prominently featured in Sony's marketing campaign that audiences might be shocked to learn his screen time in the two-hour-and-45-minute film amounts to a single scene and two quick and wordless flashbacks. — chicagotribune.com, "Bruce Lee’s family calls ‘Once Upon a Time’ ‘a mockery.’ Is it insult or homage?," 1 Aug. 2019 Lee is so prominently featured in Sony’s marketing campaign that audiences might be shocked to learn his screen time in the two-hour-and-45-minute film amounts to a single scene and two quick and wordless flashbacks. — Jen Yamatostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "Bruce Lee’s family calls ‘Once Upon a Time’ ‘a mockery.’ Is it insult or homage?," 31 July 2019

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27 Nov 2019

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“Wordless.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wordlessly. Accessed 10 December 2019.