How to Use formless in a Sentence

formless

adjective

• Many are small slides of powdery snow that move as a formless mass downslope.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• The sea was green, the formless dark blobs more visible than in the flat gray light of the previous day.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
• Everyone knows women’s golf outfits are meant to be boxy and formless.
  — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 16 July 2017
• In it, the Earth is described as being dark, empty, and formless.
  — Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• To the right and left of me rose up those terrible formless things of my imagination.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2017
• There’s the formless button-downs and short-shorts and the Sufjan Stevens and the peach.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Surely the habit, in its formless bulk, could accommodate one.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Inside the container, a pale, formless mass muttered and burped.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
• Both are beatless, widescreen, and almost formless, little soundtracks to an imagined world in bloom.
  — Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
• The producer's love for ambient stems from a formless jam session a couple years back.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2018
• Of course there was skin under the dark, formless garment, but the sight of it is incongruous and mildly shocking.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• In quarantine, this has meant that my days are not a formless mass of hours, but instead punctuated by thrice-daily prayer times.
  — CNN, 22 June 2021
• Over meals that punctuate formless hours on the boat, Thorsen gets to know who takes coffee with cream and who prefers the dressing on the side.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2016
• His hand sprouts metallic screws, driving into his wrist, locking his gun into a hand that swells into a grotesque of formless and seeping flesh.
  — Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Riker wisely resists easy epiphanies that might give structure to his formless narrative.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Now, Holden is more clearly an unstable genius, rather than some kind of formless lead character.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Without training in how to respond to it, a threat can feel not just frightening but formless, something to be endured rather than navigated.
  — Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026
• Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
• In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
• Novelty stores sold Belichick costumes for Halloween, complete with formless sweatpants and a drab ski cap.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Now the fiction was formless and empty, and darkness lay over the surface of the science, and the spirit of mathematics hovered over their creation.
  — Stan Stalnaker, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2019
• This realization totally reshaped the app, which uses a formless visualization of the wind as a metaphor for grief.
  — Liz Stinson, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2015
• For some, slipping into a soft sweater dress or matching sweatsuit is both comfortable and comforting—giving shape to an otherwise formless day.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 14 May 2020
• Flashes of white provided historic musing — such as one formless ancient Greek tunic in white silk that gained its structure from the curves of the model’s body.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• For many of those who experienced it, the tragedy of the tsunami was formless, black and ineffable, an immense and overwhelming monster that blocked out the sun.
  — Lisa Levy, New Republic, 9 Oct. 2017
• The first two episodes are generally formless, convincing neither as episodic television nor as a 74-minute movie.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
• The sticky, formless material suggests both flesh itself and human life’s metaphorical connection to earth.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• To read along in such a chronicle is like watching an expert carver give shape to something otherwise formless or burdened by a profusion of material.
  — David S. Reynolds, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019