How to Use amorphous in a Sentence
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The constant hacks have left us all with an amorphous sense of dread.
—Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 20 May 2017
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Their grief, for better and for worse, will be more amorphous.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
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These are all these amorphous money losers.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
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There is no money on the line but a more amorphous bet—the fate of a race.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
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The top of his head looked amorphous, like mist fading into the dark.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
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But so many of the apologies are for other, more amorphous things.
—Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
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The more amorphous stuff is the cat-and-mouse of getting to know somebody.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
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In spite of the high stakes, the race for mayor is still a messy and amorphous affair.
—New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
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The front of an amorphous alabaster coat flapped unzipped at the top and bottom.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
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Why put the amorphous hopes of the audience ahead of his own, more urgent needs?
—Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 27 July 2017
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And in the amorphous plenitude beyond the deal lies the free.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
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Stars form within amorphous clouds of gas and dust called nebulae.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2020
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Modern life seemed erased by a white tide—road signs obscured, cars turned into amorphous blobs.
—Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
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Modern life seemed erased by a white tide — road signs obscured, and cars turned into amorphous blobs.
—Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
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All that’s left is a big amorphous cloud of particles zipping here and there at random.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
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For the most part, the threat of Big Data was amorphous and faceless.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 May 2020
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That doesn’t mean that the four-door looks like an amorphous blob, though (unlike some of its competitors).
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
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Who in the numberless, amorphous readership of the world cares about you and your son?
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2017
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Perhaps in an attempt to mirror its subject’s frame of mind, the film feels amorphous.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 13 Nov. 2021
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But the amorphous nature of the threat demands a cool assessment.
—The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
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Time can't—and shouldn’t—be the only way to measure a process as amorphous as healing a broken heart.
—Myisha Battle, TIME, 30 May 2024
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Trying to up the ante to something as amorphous and variable as loyalty is a bridge too far.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2022
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Does your spouse always empty out their pockets at the end of the day into an amorphous mass on the dresser?
—Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2022
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The mood is unsettled; the structure is amorphous and inchoate.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026
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The crowds the city has seen are often made up of amorphous groups of people who come for different reasons.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
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For millions and millions in the great amorphous middle, the answer is credit and has been for decades.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Completing the picture are amorphous swaths of color and a floating blue mask.
—Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
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In the past its structure must have been more compact and defined, as opposed to its amorphous shape today.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 June 2026
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Fat, on the other hand, is amorphous and creates a more natural effect.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 19 Nov. 2025
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Chicness is, of course, amorphous—hard to pin down to a sum of parts, at once mystical and tangible.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2023
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